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CentOS 5 PHP 5 Build Issues
September 27, 2008 – 10:59 am | No Comment

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139324 ln -sf /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so ln -sf /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 /usr/lib/libcom_err.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libm.so /usr/lib/libm.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libidn.so.11 /usr/lib/libidn.so

Openfire SSL instructions
February 23, 2008 – 6:43 pm | No Comment

The instructions for openfire ssl are incomplete. I had my certificate signed by a CA and following the instructions in the openfire ssl guide, I had difficulty. After you follow the steps down to the part about the truststore, you need to follow these instructions, replacing the filename, alias and password with your own. Once [...]

Jive Software Clearspace LDAP Administrative Login
December 19, 2007 – 3:44 pm | No Comment

Problem on the last page of setup getting the system to accept the admin login. This worked for me… I used these instructions to change from the default authentication method to LDAP. It worked fine except I could no longer login to the admin interface using the "admin" user. The only way I could get [...]

How to set up ssh login with no password
August 28, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

How to do it First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do not enter a passphrase: a@A:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/a/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/a/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: [...]

pam login authorization using both local and winbind
July 30, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

I have a situation where I need the linux server to accept either local password or active directory password. Below is the relevant code from /etc/pam.d/system-auth. The commented out line was how the file was setup before and the line below it shows how it should be setup to allow this functionality. All other setup [...]