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”

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 →

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 →