Month: May 2022

List the Roles for a User or Service Account in a Specific GCP Project

Posted on by rchapin

If you do not have web console permissions to do so, but have the ability to activate a service account that has the viewer permissions or IAM permissons to list IAM roles in a given project, the following is how you can list the roles for a given user or service account.

gcloud projects get-iam-policy <gcp-project> \
--filter="bindings.members:<email-address>" \
--flatten="bindings[].members" --format="table(bindings.role)"

Compiling Python Under Linux

Posted on by rchapin

The following should work with just about any version of Python. I am using it to compile, currently 3.10.x, on distros where those packages are not readily available for installation. The following is a quick how to on getting it compiled under both RedHat/CentOS/Almalinux and Debian based systems.

Download the Tarball for the Version You Want To Install

Download the tar.gz archive for the version that you want to install from here. Verify the download and then save the path to this file for later.

Install Dependencies

This assumes that you already have the “build-essentials” and kernel headers installed on the box, which is an exercise for the reader.

RedHat/CentOS/Almalinux

yum install -y bzip2-devel expat-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel readline-devel wget sqlite-devel tk-devel xz-devel zlib-devel libffi-devel gmp-devel libmpc-devel mpfr-devel openssl-devel liblzma-devel

Debian

apt install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev curl libbz2-dev liblzma-dev

Compile Python

The following enables a non-root user to unpack, compile, and install it into their home directory. Copy this file to /var/tmp/compile-python.sh and then run as follows

/var/tmp/compile-python.sh <path-to-tarball>
#!/bin/bash

set -u
set -e

# The path to the downloaded tarball
py_tarball=$1

export PY_DIR=$(echo $py_tarball | awk -F/ '{ print $NF }' | sed 's/.tgz//')
export PY_PREFIX=$(echo ~/usr/local/$PY_DIR | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])

mkdir -p ~/usr/local/src ~/usr/local/bin ~/usr/local/include $PY_PREFIX
rm -rf $PY_PREFIX
tar -xzf $py_tarball -C ~/usr/local/src/
cd ~/usr/local/src/$PY_DIR
./configure --prefix=$PY_PREFIX --exec-prefix=$PY_PREFIX
make && make install

Add the following to your PATH in ~/.bash_profile

PYTHON_HOME=~/usr/local/python-<version>

export PATH=$PATH:$PYTHON_HOME/bin

Using fc to Edit and Re-execute Bash Commands

Posted on by rchapin

I recently learned about the Bash built-in fc. It is a great tool that enables you to edit and re-execute commands from your bash history.

Oftentimes there is a command in your history that instead of just grepping through the history and then re-executing as-is you’ll want to make a modification or two. With fc you can first edit it in your favorite editor and then when closing the editor fc will execute the command.

For me, vim is my editor of choice. Add the following to your .bashrc and fc will automatically open vim for you.

export FCEDIT=vim

Then, simply run fc passing it the id of the command in your history that you want to edit and then execute.

fc 1234
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