Tag: Linux
All the articles with the tag "Linux".

Nginx and Keepalived
Updated:I have a need to deploy a High Availability Load Balanced reverse proxy solution. We have a back end web service that requires resilience. To achieve this

SSH and SOCKS
Updated:Here's my handy script for bringing a socks proxy up and down. Saves the hassle of finding the PID of the ssh proxy process to kill it when you're done. so

PAM_LDAP and uniqueMember
Updated:After upgrading the LDAP server so we could make use of some new features like olc and in particular memberOf I ran into a major issue. Where many programs

SSH Multiplexing
Updated:Typically SSH creates a new tcp session for every time you connect to a remote host. But there is a feature of ssh that allows connections to reuse an exis

Remotely Mounting a Fileshare
Updated:Working from home means making use of different technologies to connect to systems in the office. Not all of our file system are available over webdav, and

SSH Authorized_Keys and LDAP
Traditionally we store public keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys , but this means pushing them around all the servers we want to connect to. Instead of doing t

php 7.0 on Debian Buster
Updated:Actually this is more about any version of php (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2) on buster. Php source has taken on a bit of a split and the standard repositories only deal with the one supported version for the current release of Debian you are using.

Nextcloud, LDAP and Password Changes
Using Nextcloud with LDAP is straight forward enough, you just add in the "LDAP user and group backend". We wanted to use Nextcloud to enable our LDAP user

Asterisk + WebRTC
Updated:Enable WebRTC so you can use a plain old HTML5 browser to make calls. I had already configured Asterisk's http server to use my Let's Encrypt certificates.

Asterisk PBX v17 Docker
Updated:In light of the possibility of many people needing to work from home the boss wanted to upgrade the phone system to bring in some fixes and new features fo