June 14, 2010
I had to set up a SFTP site for a customer which required a true chroot user jail - each user would go directly to their own home directory. Other requirements included: Users could not see other users folders, Authentication via Active Directory, and no SSH or other access.
After much research and trial-and-error, I figured [...]
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April 29, 2009
VMware does not offer a supported method to create a thin disk on the free version of ESXi 3.5. Thin = only allocate space as the guest OS demands. The GUI, Virtual Infrastructure Client, only creates zeroedthick disks (pre-allocated and zeroed on demand), therefore using up much more space than required. The command-line tools, RCLI, either on [...]
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February 7, 2009
Built a Linux Samba server for a file server this week. It’s in a satellite office connected via OpenVPN to the main office, which hosts Active Directory. Samba is running winbind, which allows transparent access to resources and minimal management on the server. I learned that winbind’s offline logons work for local or ssh logon [...]
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