I recently spent a long day and night debugging a SAML login issue over at Squirro. Eventually we found out that the xmlsec version shipped with RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 is broken for signing. Error Introduction As part of our Single Sign-On implementation we use pysaml2. That library in turns depends on xmlsec, a library supporting XML signature and encryption. In the deployment we were debugging we saw that the xmlsec1 call was erroring out: ...
Since a few months I keep configuration parts of my home directory managed with git. This allows me to easily check out my home directory on my servers and have access to the same environment. Today I wrote a script to make that slightly easier. I wrote the following script which is stored as ~/bin/init-host. #!/bin/bash # # Copies my git repository to the given host. cd ~/ echo "You'll be asked for your password on each host." for host in $*; do tar -czf - .git | ssh $host "git --version && \ tar -xvzf - --exclude '._*' && \ git reset --hard HEAD" done It logs into all hosts given as command line parameters. On each it deploys the home directory using the ~/.git repository. A few specialties: ...
Well, look at what we’ve got here. Because of this this subversion checkin I saw that Skolelinux 2 is now live. And indeed, on the English download page you are now presented with the option of downloading Skolelinux 2.0r0. Great! This version brings a ton of improvements. First and foremost, this is based on the Sarge release of Debian and therefore includes a lot more recent software and an improved installer. Second it includes very good Spanish translation. And it generally just works very nicely. This new release is a major step and am I very glad for the Skolelinux/Debian-Edu project that they (or rather we, as I also helped my little bit) got it out. ...
I taught another Skolelinux lesson on Saturday. This time to five teachers who are not from the Diego Thomson. I showed them how to install the standalone client including how to partition the disk. They were very content and one of the participants commented that it’s easier to install than Windows. And that’s exactly my opinion as well. The only thing that makes a Linux installation more difficult than Windows nowadays is the fact, that it doesn’t come pre-installed. Only very few people actually install Windows themselves, while most people just use the pre-installed OEM versions. I’ll have a lesson with the same people again at one of their colleges to install Skolelinux clients in their network. ...