Ben Ruset on September 24th, 2008

I’ve been spending some time on Facebook recently, and today I changed my status to “Ben was happier when all we had to worry about was the Russians nuking us.” I meant it as an off-hand remark, but the more I think about it, the more it sort of sums up how I feel now.
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Ben Ruset on September 23rd, 2008

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Ben Ruset on September 22nd, 2008

Today I finally managed to get RHEL5 boxes authenticating against Active Directory using secure LDAP. I had no problem getting RHEL4 boxes to do it, or RHEL5 boxes without TLS, but I figured out what the problem was with RHEL5. In my /etc/ldap.conf I had a line:
ssl yes
Which enabled Secure LDAP in RHEL4. In RHEL5 [...]

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Ben Ruset on September 21st, 2008

Saturday I took a ride up to Holmdel to see the first Concours d’Elegance (a car show full of meticulously restored pre-1960’s cars). The event was held at Hop Brook Farm, which is right next to my old company’s headquarters. After being away from there for nearly 8 years, it was nice to be back.
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