A few Notes… I think it is important to make a note about all of the people and places that have helped me ferret out a lot of this configuration.  I don’t find …Continue reading →

LDAP Administration VI – TLS/SSL This article goes hand in hand with “LDAP Administration – Part I” in regards to configuring the client. So, let’s see where we are.  We have a master server you …Continue reading →

LDAP Administration V – Replication Continuing our discussion of LDAP Administration, there’s the matter of Replication. So far we’ve created an LDAP store, turned up the server, configured a client, and even connected Apache authentication …Continue reading →

It’s All About The Framework System Administration is a funny thing. Many people think that it’s just adding users, performing requests, and working with project groups to get their “next big thing” out the door. …Continue reading →

Puh-lease I saw a p1mp of a new book on Gruber called “Being Geek”.  It bills itself as “The Software Developer’s Career Handbook“.  That sort of set me off, honestly. You mean …Continue reading →

Production and Developers Somewhere in the back recesses of my mind, I was brewing a post about permissioning and the relationship between DEV and Sysadmin teams and when and how elevated access should …Continue reading →

LDAP Authentication IV – Apache TAGS: LDAP | Linux | UNIX Once you’ve got your handy LDAP server authenticating users for login throughout your environment, inevitably you find yourself getting around to the question of authentication for all your backend tools/services …Continue reading →

LDAP Administration III – ‘Odds ‘n Ends’ TAGS: LDAP | Linux | UNIX By now you should have a functional LDAP server, a properly configured client, and the ability to authenticate against your server.  However, the last couple “cogs in the wheel” are …Continue reading →

LDAP Administration – Part II TAGS: LDAP | Linux | Systems Administration | UNIX Ok, so in our previous installment, we got LDAP all configured up from the client perspective.  I’ll cover some other client-based niceties such as extra PAM modules and security in …Continue reading →

LDAP Administration – Part I TAGS: LDAP | Linux | Systems Administration | UNIX I plan to tell this story mostly in the context of a RedHat-ish rpm-based distro, and the setup of both the server and a Linux client to tell both sides of the story. I will use my own terminology to begin, making it very simple to explain precisely the setup we’re looking for without getting into a lot of LDAP-ese. As we go through the setup, I will slowly start to relate my description back to LDAP-ese so you can, once your setup is working, go back to the documentation and determine “just what happened here”