An alternative to custom objectclasses: the extensibleobject
I’ve spent a decade designing and implementing LDAP directories, but only recently had the opportunity to reflect on the big picture. For example, the basic structure of the environment originally put in place at the company I work for by the consultants who started things is still there, but as time marched on things [...]
Ntpd on Solaris 10
This is easy.
Here are the steps (all done as root):
1. Copy /etc/inet/ntp.server to /etc/inet/ntp.conf, and then edit ntp.conf to comment out the “server” and “fudge” lines. Add a line to the bottom of the file,
server timeservername
Like,
server tick.usno.navy.mil
2. Create a drift file,
touch /var/ntp/ntp.drift
3. Initialize the ntpd service,
svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp
static-routes in RHEL
“Where do I define any needed static routes for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system?”
I’m glad you asked. In /etc/sysconfig/static-routes, of course, right where anyone who had the courage to take (and the skill to pass) either the RHCT (Red Hat Certified Technician) or RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) test would expect to find [...]
More fun with hashed and encoded strings
Most of us who have worked with LDAP directories know that the better systems out there don’t actually store passwords in user entries.
Paragraph 5.36 of RFC 2256 specified that the userpassword attribute be stored using the octet string syntax and not encrypted.
Early on it became the practice to have the directory server itself hash an [...]
What’s the system time on that db?
Needed to check this today to make sure an apps db wasn’t out of sync with its corresponding infrastructure partners.
SQL> SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE ,
2 ‘Dy DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS’) as
3 “Current Date/Time” FROM DUAL;
It’s little stuff like this that can make you crazy.
NTP was invented back around 1980 by Dave Mills at the University of Delaware. [...]
El Reg headline: You all look bloody shifty to me (or, why is IE still our standard browser?)
Big title there, but given this:
as reported in the UK’s own The Register under the headline MS phishing filter blacklists everything: You all look bloody shifty to me, the question needs to be asked:
“After nearly a decade in which the Mozilla project’s free (as in beer) successor to Netscape Navigator has consistently lead the way [...]
How do I search on a name value that has a parens in it?
How do I search on a name value that has a parens ["("] in it?
You have to escape both parens characters in the LDAP search filter.
“(givenname=stephan \(IT\))”
why? Because the parens is what LDAP uses to determine where the filter begins and ends!
Just another reason never to let anyone store parens or other non-alphabet characters in [...]