March 2011 - Craig Dunn's Blog

Preventing users from changing their password with PAM

Howtos, Linux |March 31, 2011 |by Craig Dunn |0

Blocking AD users from using passwd I had to design a system recently for a client which has a mixture of local users and remote users that are authenticated using LDAP against Active Directory (actually, [..]

Puppet – working with define based virtuals

Howtos, Linux, Puppet |March 21, 2011 |by Craig Dunn |3

Define Based Virtuals Define-based virtuals are quite a powerful feature of Puppet, but many people either don’t understand them or don’t know how to apply them effectivly to their manifests. Due to Puppet’s normalized configuration [..]