Ben Ruset on October 29th, 2008

For a while now I’ve been meaning to write an article on how to easily set up your Linux boxes to authenticate against an Active Directory setup. I’ve had this working in production environments for a while now, having cobbled together bits and pieces from various websites, blogs, and trial and error experimentation.
First of [...]

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Ben Ruset on October 14th, 2008

Since “green” is in, I’ve decided to do my part.
1. My AppleTV has turned out to be a disappointment. Even with XBMC loaded, I couldn’t get my nfs shares mounted. Unplugged.
2. Since my AppleTV is unplugged, there’s less of a compelling reason to keep my home “server” up all the time. All it does [...]

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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 July 31st, 2008

As a sysadmin, I like to make sure that my servers are as lean as possible. I’m of the philosophy that less is more, and when I build servers, I typically limit the packages that I install to the bare minimum, and add only what I need. The net is a system with fewer running [...]

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