Syncthing on server

Syncthing is peer to peer synchronisation software than run on a lot of platform. To be able to synchronise two devices they need to be both up at the same time. At the moment Syncthing is aimed to be run as a single user. Therefore if we want that several ...

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Offline and caching of LDAP authentication

Centralised authentication through LDAP is very useful. No matter the number of machine that used it, the user have the same login and groups. When the user change his password on one of the machine, the password is updated everywhere. However in case of lack of connection with the LDAP ...

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OpenVPN server on OpenWRT box

While you are away from home it is sometime needed to access some files on the home file server. To protect it it is not directly available from the web. We will see here how to create a secure connexion to connect from the web on your OpenWRT box to ...

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RTSP through OpenWRT

The French ISP Free provide TV over DSL. Some of the channels could be directly seen on a computer through the RTSP protocol. However it is not something that is working nicely through a home switch that is just behind the FreeBox DSL router like an OpenWRT running box.

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OpenWRT wifi toggle

The WRT54GL router has two buttons: one reset button and one called "SecureEasySetup" or SES. After OpenWRT installation this two button do not served. We will see how to give a role to the SES one to toggle the wifi on and off.

Wifi toggle script

First we will create ...

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LDAP authentication

How to add ldap authentication to Debian server. It suppose that a running ldap server is running and that the ldap tree is filled correctly with account informations.

libnss-ldapd installation

The client need the libnss-ldapd package that is a fork of the historical libnss-ldap for better efficiency

# apt-get install libnss-ldapd ...
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New server setup

Small process when we get a new installed with more eye-candy staff and security.

Core configuration

Locales configuration

To setup the appropates locales on the system: the one that will be available for the users.

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

Select the local according to the language you want and the different encodings ...

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Resource management links

Description:

The Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. SLURM requires no kernel modifications for its operation and is relatively self-contained. As a cluster resource manager, SLURM has three key ...

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Installation of a CAcert certificate for lighttpd

Here we will see how to set up a X.509 certificate signed by CAcert on lighttpd web server

TLS/SSL

[[!wikipedia Transport_Layer_Security]] best known as TLS/SSL is a cryptographic protocol use on Internet to encrypt communications. It using both asymmetric encryption for key exchange and symmetric encryption for ...

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