Previously I stumbled over issues with setting up a set of servers all using single LDAP tree for user authentication. The LDAP server is using self-signed CA cert for encrypting transmissions and all clients are having copies of internal CA cert used to sign the server’s TLS/SSL certificate. Though several clients succeeded to access LDAP tree over TLS/SSL, a single client rejected to cope with it. Continue reading »
Jan 08
Issues connecting with remote OpenLDAP server using TLS/SSL
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Apr 22
Additional JavaScript files in SOGo
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SOGo is an open source scalable groupware running on Linux. There is a little documented option enabling integration of custom JavaScript files in every created page.This short post tries to shed a further light on it. Continue reading »
Apr 21
Listing NICs and their IPs in Linux
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Writing configuration scripts for linux it’s a usual requirement to get IPs of NICs. Though there are tools to read out system’s network configuration it’s sometimes hard to get a simple list putting NICs into relation with their IP, only. Here is a approach to achieve that exactly. Continue reading »
Apr 18
Syncing Apple Notes over Cyrus IMAP
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Cyrus IMAP is an open source online mailstore service providing authenticated access on mailboxes using standard protocols such as IMAP and POP3. Today, IMAP as a protocol is supported by nearly every mail client including those found on Apple’s devices ranging from Mac OS X systems to iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad. All the latter include an Apple-specific way of syncing notes over IMAP though newer releases shifted to use iCloud for that. Consider Cyrus IMAP already providing access on mailboxes and contained folders the “usual” way. Here comes a short tutorial on how to add support for syncing Apple’s notes. Continue reading »
Apr 16
SASL authentication using LDAP database
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SASL is an abstraction layer for implementing customizable authentication in a client/server software. Today many services support SASL-based authentication. This short post is about setting up SASL for LDAP-backed authentication. Continue reading »
Apr 15
Managing OpenLDAP cn=config setup
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OpenLDAP started to use runtime configuration stored in LDAP tree to completely replace previous configuration file(s). By intention this is preferred to support configuring LDAP service with no downtime thus also referred to as “runtime configuration”. While intentions are clear, there seem to be little tools other than ldapmodify for managing cn=config. Continue reading »
Apr 07
Unfolding/folding text with sed
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sed is a very powerful GNU tool for processing text files in nearly any way. So there must be some very simple opportunity to use it for unfolding text files. Querying the search engine of my choice didn’t provide me such a brief example so I had to write one myself here. Continue reading »
Jan 30
Monotype’s fonts.com has started to offer self-hosting your web fonts on subscribing with annual payment. This is great news as it faces one of our major cons on using its service due to very frequent high loads on servers providing remotely hosted web fonts. Continue reading »
Dec 23
On (partial) evaluation of phpDesigner
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For years now I have been looking for some IDE to replace my previously favoured Zend Studio (regarding versions up to 5.5 inclusively) serving high satisfaction. This time I stumbled over phpDesigner 7.2.5 … I haven’t heard of it before and so gave it a try. Continue reading »
May 07
LESS CSS with Contao CMS
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Contao is an open-source web content management system with a constantly growing fan base. Recently toxA has published an extension for Contao to use LESS CSS, an extension to CSS language. In addition that extension enables control of variables defined in LESS to have customizable themes. Continue reading »
