Author: Pieter Hollants

Hello Intel, thanks for shutting down your mainboard business

Three weeks ago I dared to flash the BIOS of my home server’s Intel DQ77KB mainboard to address a number of smaller issues related to BIOS settings not being applied. Apart from the fact that anno 2013 Intel still requires you to create a bootable USB stick, a process still complicated enough it makes you… Continue reading Hello Intel, thanks for shutting down your mainboard business

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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