Author: drfugazi

Sudoers in LDAP

In addition to the standard sudoers file, sudo may be configured via LDAP. This can be especially useful for synchronizing sudoers in a large, distributed environment. You need to have LDAP server and client...

Linux LDAP autofs client configuration

There is a plenty of Linux distributions, so there is not my point to describe how to configure autofs in every one of them. This description is based on RedHat/CentOS, but it can be...

Solaris LDAP autofs client configuration

Last time I wrote about autofs configuration on LDAP server, now it is time to configure autofs client in Solaris. I assume that in DUAConfigProfile, objectClasses and attributes are already defined. You can check...

Linux LDAP client configuration

The simplest way to configure LDAP client in Linux is to use some kind of tool delivered with system. SuSE has yast (yast2), RedHat family has authconfig (authconfig-tui). This should install required packages like:...

LDAP DIT

Solaris LDAP client configuration

Oracle Solaris has native LDAP support built in OS, so there is no need to install third-party software to configure Solaris to use LDAP as users/groups and other repository. You can use different ways...

LDAP DIT

LDAP server for Solaris and Linux clients

Few months ago I received a task to set up LDAP authentication for Solaris 10, Solaris 11 and Linux machines in Customer’s infrastructure. As LDAP server was chosen OpenLDAP 2.4.x in Master-Slave configuration with...

Migration root disk into mirror in LVM

I’ve found several manuals describing how to add second disk to Volume Group and transform it into mirror. This does not looks complex, and everyone can do it, when everything is working like described...

Trusted certificates for free – StartSSL

How many times did you see a pop-up message “Security certificate of this site is not trusted!”? We are used to it, and most of people even don’t check who is Certificate Authority and...