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”

A neat trick… TAGS: Linux | Systems Administration | UNIX When you have a large environment that can and does have a number of fingers into things, there is always the possibility that something could go awry on bootup such …Continue reading →

Linux and the “Mainstream” TAGS: Linux | Systems Administration It’s not terribly often I have a “get real” moment with Linux in general and the community in particular (the latter more often than the former to be sure), but …Continue reading →

People are Funny…. TAGS: Systems Administration Man…  people are funny.  You tell them things many, many times and for some reason, you’re a moron.  They come to you for help, you give them an answer and …Continue reading →

System Administration, Part II TAGS: Linux | Systems Administration | UNIX (originally posted 1/5/2005) So things are better… I think. It’s so hard to come off your favorite job ever and do something else. So I continue… We had a conversation on [ALE] …Continue reading →

System Administration, Part I TAGS: Linux | Systems Administration | UNIX (originally posted 1/1/2005) Ever get a new gig? Get a new gig when you were really in need? (i.e. laid off) Only to find out the organization was hopelessly broken …Continue reading →