Isaac isalgueiro

Generate Symantec VIP Access Token as OTP

Recently I came across a web service that required two-factor authentication using the Symantec VIP Access App. I already manage all of my OTP tokens in a different app (If you are on iOS I highly recommend using OTP Auth by Roland Moers.) and did not want to have to use yet another app to generate the TOTP.

There is a way to generate a Symantec VIP Access compatible token very easily if you have access to an environment which can run Python PIP. I happen to have Ubuntu Windows Subsystem Linux running on my machine. (If you are running Windows 10 and don't have this you should really check it out.) Let's get started...

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Instructions

Here we install python3-pip and qrencode so we can generate our secret, I

Usage

sed -E -f solver.sed input where input is a file containing the maze.

For best results, resize your terminal to match the height of the maze. To disable animations, delete the lines containing p.

Maze format

The solver assumes the following:

The maze only contains the characters # \nSE
Every line has the same number of characters
There is only one start (S) and end (E)

This worked for me and might not work for your.

Try it at your own risk!

Add the neon repositories and install the neon desktop

$ wget -qO - 'http://archive.neon.kde.org/public.key' | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-add-repository http://archive.neon.kde.org/user
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install neon-desktop

	Update 02.Apr.2026:
	I made a script that will do all the needed checks and install SimHub:
	https://github.com/srlemke/SimHub_on_Linux

	There is also a V2 in the works that also can install CrewChief:
	https://github.com/srlemke/SimHub_on_Linux/tree/With-Crewchief

	Automatically adds and configures plugins for LMU, it also detects custom Proton.
	Automatically adds dash.exe when Raceroom.
	Fixes common issues, like removal of dotnet4 Steam stub

	This script installs CrewChief and SimHUB and all its dependencies, it also recommends proton versions
	where this was tested and confirmed working:
	https://github.com/srlemke/SimHub_on_Linux/

	#Tutorial Date: 01/Mar/2026
	Nothing needs to be run as root, never.
	Best way ATM seems to be install per game.

	Preparation:
	Download Crewchief.msi

	#!/bin/bash

	# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
	# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Theo Markettos <git@markettos.org.uk>

	# Script to install KDE Neon on top of Ubuntu 20.04
	#
	# The KDE Neon site says "A web search should quickly give you relevant information on how to do this. "
	# but I didn't find any, so worked it out from first principles

	#! /bin/bash

	publicIP=`dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com`

	## TODO: move port, description and group-id to variables

	## Consult previous one
	cidrIP=`aws ec2 describe-security-groups --group-ids sg-XXXXXX \| jq -r '.SecurityGroups[0].IpPermissions[] \| select(.ToPort==80) \| .IpRanges[] \| select(.Description == "antonmry") \| .CidrIp' \| tail -1f`

	## Delete the previous one

	# Gawk version
	# Remote
	grep -v "rem_address" /proc/net/tcp \| awk '{x=strtonum("0x"substr($3,index($3,":")-2,2)); for (i=5; i>0; i-=2) x = x"."strtonum("0x"substr($3,i,2))}{print x":"strtonum("0x"substr($3,index($3,":")+1,4))}'

	# Local
	grep -v "rem_address" /proc/net/tcp \| awk '{x=strtonum("0x"substr($2,index($2,":")-2,2)); for (i=5; i>0; i-=2) x = x"."strtonum("0x"substr($2,i,2))}{print x":"strtonum("0x"substr($2,index($2,":")+1,4))}'

	# No Gawk
	# Local
	grep -v "rem_address" /proc/net/tcp \| awk 'function hextodec(str,ret,n,i,k,c){

	#To Decrypt Jenkins Password from credentials.xml
	#<username>jenkins</username>
	#<passphrase>your-sercret-hash-S0SKVKUuFfUfrY3UhhUC3J</passphrase>


	#go to the jenkins url
	http://jenkins-host/script

	#In the console paste the script
	hashed_pw='your-sercret-hash-S0SKVKUuFfUfrY3UhhUC3J'

	pvec2<-function(v, FUN, ..., mc.set.seed = TRUE, mc.silent = FALSE,
	mc.cores = getOption("mc.cores", 2L), mc.cleanup = TRUE
	,combineFUN = `c`
	) {
	### AUTHOR: malcolm_cook@stowers.org
	### PURPOSE: an improvement(?) on parallel:pvec which
	### (1) does not require v to be a vector, rather, v must
	### implement `[`, `length`. Thus, i.e. BioConductor List (including
	### GRangesList) is supported.
	### (2) uses `parallel:splitIndices` to compute indices into v