Just a reminder, when you’re migrating a lot of data and configuration information to a new machine, remember to make sure you pull all the relevant information. I just spent the better part of my afternoon/evening chasing down a problem where a user could not log on via SSH. He had the right key. He [...]
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I was recently asked for my opinion on options for adding access control, or, more specifically, host-level authorization for users connecting to Linux systems. All the systems in question are a variety of CentOS, and all of them are configured to use LDAP for authentication and authorization via the pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules. The Problem [...]
If you’re anything like me, you have a strong dislike for all the stupidity that surrounds the Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader.) I won’t go into the details here (though this guy can explain it in great detail), but because I very occasionally need features of Adobe Reader, I still keep it installed [...]
Apparently weblogs are not for busy people, who don’t have time to write for them more than once a quarter. It would also help if I perhaps didn’t use a weblog engine that required upgrading every month because of new security holes. Bleh.
Dear LazyWeb: My wife and I have something like 4000+ photos that we need to scan (at high resolution) and archive, and be able to logically manage. My platform choice is Mac. I will likely be purchasing a Mac Mini to dedicate to this task (2GHz model). I do not want to afford a Mac [...]
