So, I wanted to create a completly virtualized lab enviroment, including virtualized network devices.

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So, since my network is getting bigger, I decided to finally switch to LDAP authentication. However, I provide shell access to certain boxes for friends, so I had to make sure they will only get access to their current system and nothing else.

After a bit of searching, I found out about pam_groupdn attribute. It allows to specify a group that can access the selected PAM resource. Unfortunally it doesn’t support nested groups.

While configuring the ldap authentication, I ran into some problems. The biggest problem was the fact that the pam authentication wasn’t working. It was sending “[few non-printablechars]INCORRECT” to LDAP server. After a while, I discovered why: It was using SASL. And I couldn’t find any way to disable that (my ldap server is only accesiable within LAN and to VPN clients, so I don’t need to worry about encrypting the authentication).

Anyway, once I figured that out, rest was easy.

The Finnish Pirate Alliance writes:

Finnish Copyright Information and Anti-piracy Centre (CIAPC) toughens its fear campaign against filesharers. CIAPC has now used the new Finnish copyright law from January 1st 2006 to close an internet connection because of suspected filesharing. It came as a surprise to even CIAPC itself that the closed connection did not belong to a private filesharer but instead to the Provincial Government of Ã…land. A government employee had seemingly used the connection to share music.

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My net has been a bit sluggish for past few days (nothing unbearable, but still quite annoyning). Last night I decided to figure out what was wrong.

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So, I finally got a reason to get into VOIP as it will be required for a certain thing I’m doing soon.

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