On September 24, 2014 someone posted on the oss-sec mailing list about a bash vulnerability that likely affects several decades of bash versions (something like 1.14 – 4.3!). The vulnerability — aptly named “Shellshock” — can lead to remote code execution on un-patched hosts, for example web servers parsing HTTP environment variables via CGI GET […]
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 […]
I work as a Systems Analyst at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya. In the name of alleviating poverty in the developing world, our scientists generate a lot of data about diseases, weather, markets, etc. Lots of data means lots of servers, routers, switches, etc and, because most science types aren’t tech […]