To anticipate and prevent
The title basically sums it all up. I made the mistake of setting up a new install of Request Tracker (RT), against a server running SpeedyCGI. I’ll be honest, it’s been so long since I’ve run any perl apps, that I had no idea what interface to pick. Anyways, on top of the RT/SpeedyCGI I…
Last Thursday I received an email from one of AMD’s PR firms, inviting me to an event at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco. It was short notice (as the event was on Monday), but it was only a block from the office, so I figured what the heck. I know they have my…
Last night I was having a bit of a philosophical debate and I thought I’d externalize it. Everyone knows that the Wikimedia Foundation is a big proponent of “free software”, and similarly, “free access”. By that I mean audio and video is uploaded in formats like Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora rather than patented formats…
As I discussed previously, I got fed up with Samba file sharing (when trying to use LDAP) and went to the joy that was WebDAV. As it turned out, it is extremely easy to get LDAP authentication on Apache and combine that with WebDAV; today I’ll show you how.
Recently, I’ve needed to setup an open source centralized authentication server. After research and testing some of the options, I settled on OpenDS, and while I’m leery of anything running Java, I’ll admit… OpenDS is really nice. Most importantly, getting it up and running is a piece of cake.
Recently I was tasked with helping a company implement a centralized authentication system, and they wanted to go all open source. This isn’t unreasonable in my book, though it is a little unusual. Of course the words “Open Source Authentication” directly translates to LDAP, the only question is which LDAP software you’re going to use….