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LDAP Commands on RHEL5

By arfore | Published: August 6, 2010
During the migration of a production system from Solaris 10 to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, I discovered that I had a problem with a couple of my LDAP scripts.  The commands being run were standard ldapsearch and ldapmodify commands in a format similar to the following: ldapsearch -h hostname.domain.com -p 389 -b o=organisation -D cn=admin [...]
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File upload hang in Safari 4

By arfore | Published: November 4, 2009
While working on a method to allow the VSU Communications Unit to add or change the stories in the rotation on the main VSU webpage, I ran into a problem that involved a known Safari issue involving file uploads. I don’t regularly create forms that allow for an upload of a file, however I don’t [...]
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Xephyr, RHEL5 and Mac OS X 10.5

By arfore | Published: October 28, 2009
When doing system administration it is often more convenient to connect to a server through some sort of remote connection setup rather than having to sit at a console in a datacenter.  The comfort of one’s office (or living-room) is often far superior in terms of noise and temperature than the environs of the datacenter [...]
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Adding an Active Directory group to local admin on Mac OS X 10.5

By arfore | Published: October 21, 2009
One of the standard methods of configuring Mac OS X in the enterprise has become known as the magic triangle or golden triangle. This is generally described as a setup involving Active Directory (AD) for authentication of the clients and services and Open Directory (OD) for managing the client preferences.  The triangle comes from the [...]
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SSLSessionCache error on Apache for Windows

By arfore | Published: August 24, 2009
While setting up Apache for Windows to use SSPI so that I could implement Alain O’Dea’s method of combining Active Directory authentication with SVN I ran into an interesting path problem. After following Alain’s instructions I kept receiving the following error: SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes After some investigation it [...]
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