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In last week's post we set up PWM insecurely. In this post, we are going to secure it down and install mysql to store the reset questions. This guide assumes you have this CentOS 7 server publicly accessible with ports 80 and 443 available t…

We in IT have heard it often, the #1 request coming into help desk ticket systems is password resets, account lockouts, and the like. PWM is a password reset web application written in Java for use with LDAP directories. You can configure it to work with Active Directory, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, and others. There are already a handful of good tutorials …

You may have already heard the news about Delta Airlines catastrophic failure. Ars Technica reports the true cau…

I am a SysAdmin who likes to code. I would say I know a fair amount of web developing, but do not understand it like a web developer uunderstands it. I think the reverse is true as well - web developers know how to set up a LAMP/LAMP stack, but they do not understand it as well as SysAdmin might understand it.

To be a successful SysAdmin, yo…

I recently submitted a proposal to remove Microsoft Office from off my network and switch to Google Apps for Work and LibreOffice. This would incur a cost savings of ~$17.50 per user per month (GAFW $5 plan versus Office 2016 Professional Plus, Corporate, Open License, License Only). Some may argue that there are better license options with Microso…

I see a trend in system administration tasks moving toward the Ruby programming language. Yes, you can still code in Perl, Python, Shell, etc., but Ruby seems to be growing in popularity as a choice in scripting language. It should be - it is certainly easier to type and it has a big community to go with it. I was first introduced to Ruby in 2009 a…

The Linux Foundation is offering select courses at a discount until 7/31/16. Some offers are up to 55% off. You can also get an additional 10% off in check-out by using the code GSHOP. That brings the prices down to:

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