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Sync LDAP accounts to Redmine

Friday, 24 July 2015

You can configure Redmine to use an LDAP or Active Directory server as login backend. Whenever a new user has been successfully authenticated against this service, a new entry in the Redmine's user table is created.

A side effect of this is that you can't work with users that have not logged in into your instance, yet.

To solve this I've created a small python script that can be used to periodically synchronize the users table with your directory services:

How to connect to a FortiGate IPSec-VPN using Linux

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Update 2016-11-22

This article might not longer be relevant as a new opensource client called "openfortivpn" exists that utilized the SSLVPN feature of Fortigate instead of IPSec. See my new article Connecto to Fortigate VPN with OpenfortiVPN.

This article might be relevant to you if you have problems connecting to a FortiGate IPSec VPN with Linux (vpnc). For example, when using NetworkManager, you might see something like this in syslog:

Mercurial (and others): How to read log message from STDIN

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Use "tee" as editor:

$ (echo "Daily autocommit. Stats:"; hg diff | diffstat) | hg commit --config ui.editor=tee Daily autocommit. Stats: b/bar | 1 + foo | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

How to escape filenames for save use within shell scripts

Monday, 30 March 2015

With bash and printf:

Use IkiWiki in nginx with httpauth and 404 plugin

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Though it's trivial to use IkiWiki with nginx you need some tricks to make it work together with the httpauth module and the 404 module.

To make it short, here's a working example (as in "works for me"). The blue lines are required for httpauth while the green lines are required for 404.

ICQ	18715473
Jabber	cybso@bitarbeiter.net
E-Mail
GPG	77B6013F ~~168A6AA2~~ (gültig bis 04/2015)

Update 2016-11-22

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