Month: June 2026
Flatpak – Escaping the Sandbox
We’ve been running Cura from a flatpak because the rpm distributed version was out of date. The big drawback, though, is that this flatpak could not see the files from network mounts. The mount is fine – in fstab, same user account can interact with those files in other applications. Just not this flatpak thing.
Turns out that’s normal – flatpaks operate in a sort of sandbox. You just have to tell it to let an individual flatpak access the location where the network mountsĀ are. In this case, the /mnt path:
flatpack override com.ultimaker.cura --filesystem=/mnt
Extracting Base 64 Encoded Certificate Files with OpenSSL CLI
Quick command to get the base-64 encoded certificate — useful for establishing trust with AD DS domain controllers
openssl s_client -connect dc5.example.com:636 -showcerts </dev/null 2>/dev/null | awk ‘BEGIN{c=0} /BEGIN CERTIFICATE/{c++} c==1{print} /END CERTIFICATE/ && c==1{exit}’
