Tag: Linux
All the articles with the tag "Linux".

Using LDAP with Active Directory
Updated:Getting your Linux box to talk with Active Directory is pretty straight forward. But doing it securely will need you to have installed your CA certificate

Nginx 1.10 and PHP7.0-fpm
Updated:Keen to press on a try new suff I figured that seeing as I'd now tried Nginx 1.10 that I'd put that together with PHP 7.0. I started of by thinking I'd rem

NGINX and php5-fpm
Updated:This new version of NGINX is tending to be a bit of a pain in terms of installation. Gone are the sites-available and sites-enabled folders and it does a c

Network Access Control
Updated:In order to satisfy a number of security requirements we implemented 802.1X authentication throughout our network - wired and wireless. Initially this was

Home Media Client/Server
Updated:A couple of years ago I decided to get the TV connected to something other than satellite and cable. It seems that in this environment XMBC was the daddy of all things media and a few generations on it's now called Kodi and is truly an awesome media player.

Build a Raspberry Pi Media Centre
Updated:Following on from the previous post about setting up a Home Media Client/Server setup I thought I'd put together a "how to" for building your own Raspberry Pi Media Centre with Kodi and a list of ingredients.

VSFTPD, LDAP (Active Directory) and Virtual Users
Updated:PAM and LDAP Getting this going is a challenge. It needs some tweaks with PAM to get the authentication going. In order to get it to work we needed libpam-

MySQL 5.7
Updated:With a Debian Jessie install right now you'll be getting MySQL 5.5. If you want something newer you'll need to use MySQL's own repositories by adding them

Debian Installation
Updated:When I setup a Debian server there's a few basic things I do to get it online. First steps boot from the netinst CD and follow the installer. First logon u

ownCloud
Updated:We needed a semi-secure method of transferring files between staff and 3rd parties. To handle those frequent time when someone tries to attach 150MB file onto an email. OwnCloud to the rescue.