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A New Way to look at Networking is the name of an interesting talk given by Van Jacoson Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network …

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Only loosers become system administrators through on the job training. Here’s what I learnt from 5 hours of “24” when sitting on the train back from Berlin. But first a minor rant: Why does the film and TV industry keep shooting themselves in the foot? I was watching a legally acquired 8 DVD set but …

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It was not nice. AuthType Basic AuthName "Imaginator username and password" AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative On AuthLDAPURL ldaps://ldap.imaginator.com/dc=imaginator,dc=com?uid?sub AuthLDAPBindDN "cn=nss,ou=auth,dc=imaginator,dc=com" AuthLDAPBindPassword "**********" AuthLDAPGroupAttribute memberUid require ldap-group cn=buddycloud-corp,ou=groups,dc=imaginator,dc=com So it sort of works. But what I would really like is for a way to authenticate on POSIX groups which have a memberUid which is something like: memberUID: …

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…and it was a relatively easy upgrade. I had an old and crufty Apache 1.3 that has now been migrated to a nice 2.0 configuration. Multiple SSL virtual hosts is a nice addition (although until OpenSSL is changed to include some sort of host sending outside of the ssl tunnel there will still be the …

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