• Kerberos single sign-on with SSH v2 under windows

    calendar Jan 31, 2013 · 2 min read  ·
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    Using Kerberos it is possible to "kerberize" services and applications to enhance security. Compared to classical username/password authentification Kerberos uses time-limited tickets which are applied per-user for authentificating against services and applications.

    In combination with SSH the encrypted …


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  • Storage management under Fedora made easy: System Storage Manager

    calendar Jan 16, 2013 · 4 min read · fedora lvm  ·
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    One of the innovations of Fedora 18 is the new System Storage Manager as I mentioned yesterday. This tool enables the central administration of storage devices. Are the times of reading manpages finally over for newbies? I had a deeper look at the SSM - and was pleasantly suprised. The System Storage Manager can be …
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  • First glance at Fedora 18

    calendar Jan 15, 2013 · 4 min read · fedora  ·
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    After the original release date and 6 other dates were canceled, Fedora 18 was released today.

    Time to have a look at the anticipated operating system. The latest version of the RedHat supported project introductes some new features which might be also included in the upcoming version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and …


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  • Debian Wheezy's send_nsca and nsca 2.7.2

    calendar Dec 10, 2012 · 1 min read · debian icinga nagios  ·
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    For the first time, a dedicated package for the NSCA agent is added under Debian Wheezy (before there was only a package which combined agent and daemon). The package version is 2.9.1 - which leads to syslog error messages in combination with a NSCA server in version 2.7.2:

    1# cat /var/log/messages
2...
3nsca[30772]: …

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  • Raspbian Linux

    calendar Dec 8, 2012 · 2 min read · debian kurztipp raspberry-pi  ·
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    Raspian is a special customized version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi. By default, this image includes a graphical user interface and some tools like media players and web browers. For some use cases (e.g. servers) this might be not needed. It's also a security breach if you run a server.

    I want to use a Raspberry Pi …


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