setup - Blog of Parth Kolekar


CAS Setup

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CAS is a java program used to provide a unified login to people. It supports a bunch of things, the most important among it being the ability to support the usage of LDAP.

In this setup, I deploy it to the tomcat-jsvc on default versions.

I also...

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offlineimap setup

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OfflineIMAP is a GPLv2 software to dispose your mailbox(es) as a local Maildir(s). What it allows you to do is to make a complete sync of your email over the IMAP protocol and in essence keep local copies of email. This is a GUI-less alternative...

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VPN Setup in LXC

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We would be using OpenVPN to provide a VPN server as a lxc container and set it up so that we are able to access the private subnet 192.168.1.0/24 by connecting it via the OpenVPN tunnel.

We would also be setting up routing such that all packets are...

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Configuring a USB dongle for OpenVZ

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In order to setup a USB forwarding to a OpenVZ container, you would need to ensure that you have the following packages installed

usb_modeswitch
usb_modeswitch-data

Some device drives connect by default in USB Mass Storage mode. This allows them...

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389-DS Setup

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389-DS is a LDAP service bundled with a web API based GUI Java commandline console. This makes it one of the more heavier LDAP solutions, as it requires a host of various tools and dependencies to make it work.

The tradeoff comes via an entreprise...

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Setting Up httpd (2.2) as ReverseProxy (OLD)

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httpd can be configured as a frontend load balancing proxyfier. There are better tools in the market for doing this exact thing, and nginx and haproxy have shown a much better performance in real world and benchmarks with a lower RAM footprint but...

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LXC Setup (OLD)

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LXC is a Free OS-level virtualization environment for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host. The machine on which lxc is being used will be called a 'base' machine and the virtual environments created on this would be called 'container...

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NS Setup

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The NS server of choice is the bind9 server (named) which would be configured for providing a DNS server service for a local subnet 192.168.1.0/24.

Each server needs to be set to the IP for this DNS server in its /etc/resolv.conf

Installation

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