How to recreate / build VirtualBox guest additions ISO image VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

As Linux kernel development progresses, so do interfaces change from time to time and kernel modules outside of the Linux kernel such as VirtualBox’s guest additions need more or less updating. Having done some patching in the VirtualBox sources, you might want to rebuild the guest additions ISO image, VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, so you can try out… Continue reading How to recreate / build VirtualBox guest additions ISO image VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

Why Puppet should ship with official modules

Much has certainly already been said about Puppetforge. A year ago, we were promised at Puppetcamp Nuremburg that Puppetforge was likely to improve to a more usable level. But as of now, Puppetforge is much like Github: unless you already know where to look, what to take, you’re pretty much left to your own, to… Continue reading Why Puppet should ship with official modules

net-snmp API and connection error handling

net-snmp has a strange API that does not seem to allow us to detect errors while trying to connect to the master snmpd instance. When playing around with python-netsnmpagent, create a copy of run_simple_agent.sh named test.sh and modify as follows: agentXsocket tcp:localhost:9000 or similar. Do not change the python simple_agent.py line by intent. Running test.sh… Continue reading net-snmp API and connection error handling

New authsplit version with support for external authentication

I’ve pushed a new version of https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:authsplit. David Darras contributed a patch, that I just had to cosmetically edit (and update the README for), which brings support for primary auth plugins that implement external authentication, eg. against third-party cookies. So you can now use your organization’s custom Single-Sign On (SSO) infrastructure together with authsplit. Thanks,… Continue reading New authsplit version with support for external authentication

Updates to DokuWiki authhttp and authsplit plugins

I’ve just pushed Bugfix updates for my two DokuWiki plugins: authhttp has received a small, but important bugfix: its config interventions, eg. disabling the “login” action, used to apply already as soon as the plugin was activated, even if it wasn’t the active authentication plugin. This caused weird effects when trying out other auth plugins.… Continue reading Updates to DokuWiki authhttp and authsplit plugins

New DokuWiki plugin authsplit

As a follow-up to my posts on HTTP authentication / Single Sign-On (SSO) with DokuWiki and New DokuWiki plugin authhttp, I have now released my second auth plugin for DokuWiki called authsplit.

New DokuWiki plugin authhttp

As a followup to my last blog post, HTTP authentication / Single Sign-On (SSO) with DokuWiki, I have written a new auth plugin für DokuWiki called authhttp. All the information is on the plugin’s page. I will eventually also write an authsplit plugin, if I come around to it.