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Linux on Toshiba’s Libretto U100
Ahhh… it’s cold out but I’m outside with my new couple-day old Toshiba Libretto U100.. typing is slow and I feel like my fingers are very fat, but I’m happy and satisfied. After a couple days of struggling, I’ve got this little beast configured almost the way I want it. The Toshiba Libretto is probably [...]
How I hate thee LDAP authentication…
I find LDAP for authentication highly irritating. It’s better than some alternatives, like NIS (haven’t looked at NIS+ so I don’t know how it measures up), but man oh man, it’s a real nuisance sometimes. I wrote that LDAP Authentication piece when there was essentially nothing else and it took a long time to figure [...]
Kerberos 5 authentication paper
Just finished the first draft of my Using Kerberos 5 for Single Sign-On Authentication paper. Needs to be re-read and proofed and definitely needs some adding (i.e. adding Windows XP and Mac OS X clients, integrating with OpenLDAP, etc.). but for a starter, it’s pretty good (I needed it to document the setup and testing [...]
Mandriva needs Debian? Come on
Yesterday started some of the most laughable speculation regarding Mandriva‘s future that I’ve read in a long time. It made for quite a good chuckle at first. To recap, an interview on LinuxPlanet with Ian Murdock was published yesterday indicating, among other silly rhetoric, that “Not only can they do it, my assertion is if [...]
Using runit instead of SysVinit
I’ve been a huge fan of service-style handling of daemons since I first played with qmail a number of years ago. Using daemontools and supervise was awesome, even if it was only for qmail and djbdns back then. When I first decided to start my own proof-of-concept secure Linux distro (Annvix), one of the first [...]