Monthly Archives: December 2013

kdcregister

As part of testing my krb5-1.11 RPMs on SL6 (for EASE upgrade) I found that kdcregister needed patched to work at all, bug submitted. This will also be required for Scientific Linux 7 as it will use the same version … Continue reading

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Bugs

I’ve made a start on filing bugs for work that needs doing on various components for SL7. So far I’ve just done a simple search for references to scripts in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d. These all need updating to use the … Continue reading

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Automatic home-directory creation

It’s nice being able to login to our RHEL7 VM but it would be even nicer if we all had home directories. This can be done using a PAM module to create home directories whenever they are required. I’ve previously … Continue reading

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Authentication and Authorization

In Informatics we use Kerberos for authentication and LDAP for authorisation, so to allow users to login to our RHEL7 VM we need to get those both properly configured. This is all fairly simple since Redhat provide scripts which will … Continue reading

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Getting Started

To get started with the shiny, new RHEL7 beta I have installed one as a KVM guest. This was mostly fairly straightforward, the installer had correct values for most of the options so there was little effort required to do … Continue reading

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Redhat Enterprise 7 beta announced

As an early Xmas present, Redhat have announced the availability of RHEL 7 beta. This means we can start looking at what LCFG changes we’ll need to make for SL7

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