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User management with SSSD on shared laptops

26.03.2010 4 comments

A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with. He should simply be able to pick any machine, login [...]

How to use Cucumber with Ruby On Rails and ActiveLdap resources

19.03.2010 2 comments

I have accustomed to using Cucumber with Ruby on Rails for Behavior Driven Development when using sql database backends. What if data was stored within LDAP? I researched this point and it was very easy. I assume that you have installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) and have configured the OpenLDAP server with the following instructions (Server [...]

OpenLDAP authentication with kerberos backend using SASL

16.03.2010 2 comments

Now that MIT Kerberos is running using OpenLDAP as storage backend, the next logical step is to make OpenLDAP use MIT Kerberos as its password backend.Now that MIT Kerberos is running using OpenLDAP as storage backend, the next logical step is to make OpenLDAP use MIT Kerberos as its password backend.Now that MIT Kerberos is running using OpenLDAP as storage backend, the next logical step is to make OpenLDAP use MIT Kerberos as its password backend.