Useradd bash script for 389 LDAP

We started using 389 LDAP (aka Fedora Directory Server) for user and group management in our research computing environment. Instead of managing users, groups and passwords on each and every machine, we just put them in LDAP and have all the machines authenticate users centrally; it’s not rocket science (people have been doing centralized LDAP […]

Update ownCloud stable from tarball

When I first installed ownCloud I did a git-based install, as I like to be able to git remote update and then git merge origin/stable. This works really well for DokuWiki, WordPress, Gallery, and other web applications, but was really a pain in the ass with ownCloud; it seems the git-based workflow is really meant […]

Reset LDAP server in Redmine sqlite database

Our Redmine instance authenticates users against our institute’s LDAP server. The other day they moved the LDAP service to a new machine and the IP changed, which locked us out of Redmine. If this happens to you, you can easily change the LDAP server in the Redmine database. We’re using sqlite, but the concept should […]