It’s been quite some time since I’ve been able to post anything of any substance. This has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve been super busy relocating our department and participating in the gut renovation of our lab. This has been an immensely stressful process, but in the end I find that [...]
NOTE: This is the latest article in the External Network Unification project series. It was actually penned, and was meant to be posted several weeks ago, but somehow got lost in the shuffle. In any case, it’s still relavant, and rather than rewrite it accounting for the time lapse, I present it here in it’s [...]
When last we visited this issue I had just gotten the venerable Joomla CMS to authenticate to our LDAP server. I decided to build a replica of our existing CMS, which is based on the Mambo core, and do some testing to see how easy it would be to port to our LDAP-saavy Joomla core. [...]
So I’ve been examining what we have, and thinking about what we want, and thinking about how to get there with regards to external network unification. Here’s what we have: A mail server running FreeBSD and getting user info from it’s own, local DB A web and FTP server running same, getting user info (I [...]
“Systems Boy! Where are you?” I realize posting has been lean, lo these past couple weeks. This seems to be a trend in the Mac-blog world. I think some of this has to do with the recent dearth of interesting Mac-related news. In my case, however, it’s also due to a shocking lack of time [...]