How to avoid the trust question

Certain software installs (particularly those that install drivers) ask this question:

…which is a difficult one to answer when the installation is unattended.

To bypass this, you need to add the publisher’s certificate in the localmachine, ‘Trusted Publishers’ certificate store. The easiest way to obtain the certificate is to install the software manually, and export the certificate to a file.

This certmgr command will install the certificate for you:

certmgr.exe -add cert.cer -c -s -r localMachine TrustedPublisher
 

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Access blob storage using basic authentication

This node.js snippet will start a web server which uses basic authentication (username and password) to provide access to blob storage (i.e. private containers). You should enter the storage name and access key as the username and password.

WARNING: Be careful when disclosing your storage account key, basic authentication is not encrypted.

var http = require('http');
var azure = require('azure');

http.createServer(function (request, response) {
    if (request.headers.authorization) {
        var userAndPassword = decodeBasicAuth(request);
        var blobService = azure.createBlobService(userAndPassword.username, userAndPassword.password, "blob.core.windows.net").withFilter(new azure.ExponentialRetryPolicyFilter());
        var path = request.url.split('/');

        if (path.length >= 3) {
            getBlob(path[1], request.url.substring(path[1].length + 2), response, blobService);
        }
        else {
            getBlob("$root", request.url.substring(1), response, blobService);
        }
    }
    else {
        response.writeHead(401, {"WWW-Authenticate": 'Basic realm="Azure Storage"'});
        response.end();
    }
}).listen(80);

function decodeBasicAuth(request) {
    if (request.headers.authorization) {
        var encodedheader = request.headers.authorization.replace("Basic ", "");
        var decodedheader = new Buffer(encodedheader, 'base64').toString('ascii');
        var userAndPassword = decodedheader.split(":");
        return { username: userAndPassword[0], password: userAndPassword[1] };
    }
    return {};
}

function getBlob(container, blob, response, blobService) {
    blobService.getBlobToStream(container, blob, response, function(error){
        if(!error){
            response.writeHead(200);
            response.end();
        }
        else {
            response.writeHead(404);
            response.end(error);
        }
    });
}