Category: Systems management

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

HomeOps: A call for the application of Devops principles at home, too

We all have sort of gained some kind of experience in the IT world, in the way IT works and especially the way it doesn’t work. As an IT professional following recent trends and developments (you do continously keep an eye on them, right?), you will certainly have learned about (or at least heard of)… Continue reading HomeOps: A call for the application of Devops principles at home, too

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