http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils disconnected thoughts and random brain dumps Sun, 24 May 2009 21:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First some background stuff - this work was all done on Centos 5.3 i386 using openldap 2.3. You need a basic working OpenLDAP configuration such as in my notes Configuring OpenLDAP. The other thing you need to be aware of when setting up LDAP sync with the Centos 5.x distro ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=140 This is a brief look at the use of vReplicator from Vizioncore for replicating VMWare VMs to a disaster recovery site. The information is based on my experiences in setting up this environment for my employers. Main site is a VMWare ESX 3.5 HA cluster (Intel CPUs) and SAN with multiple ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=120 These notes refer to building rssh on Centos 5.3. I do not cover chrooting the user within their restricted shell because I could not get it working satisfactorily. Nor do I cover the reasons why you might want to use a restricted shell. The steps I followed were: Get the code (1) ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=105 How to make freeradius use openldap as an authentication source. This was tested on Centos 5.3. Freeradius and OpenLDAP were installed using the "Add/Remove Software" item on the Applications menu - no rocket science here! The article assumes that you already have a working ldap server (or see my article ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=47 This was used to configure OpenLDAP on Centos 5.3 Initial Configuration of slapd.conf (1) You need the following schemas included: include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=27 This is a very basic configuration for freeradius to allow authentication from passwd and shadow files. It has been tested on Centos 5.3 (1) The freeradius configuraton files are usually in /etc/raddb; make a subdirectory /etc/raddb/etc (2) copy your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow  files to /etc/raddb/etc (3) edit the /etc/raddb/etc/passwd and /etc/raddb/etc/shadow files to ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=20 These notes were based on work done with Solaris 10 but I think the basic configuration approach applies to any Unix/Linux installation. Some Background NTP runs on UDP port 123 so you should ensure that this port is unblocked on your server’s firewall. NTP servers advertise their presence every 64 seconds by ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=19 Internally Solaris 10 uses UTC but for programmes that need local timezone information the system timezone is set in the file /etc/default/init (Note: The file /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to /etc/default/init). To set the timezone in /etc/default/init you edit the TZ variable so that, for example: TZ="Australia/Canberra" The full list of timezones is ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=18 One problem I've been having recently with MS WinXP workstations connecting and authenticating to a Samba PDC is that the workstation cannot authenticate to the PDC and download the roaming profile (it uses the local cached copy of the profile instead). The problem seems to be occurring quite frequently with ... http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=17 I've been looking at options for more compact (read unobtrusive) setups for generating electricity from wind power and came across this interesting article on Windbelts. They also include some documentation as well as details on how to build an experimental version of a Windbelt :=) http://blogwords.neologix.net/neils/?p=16