Jonas Genannt

I have uploaded an new version of my linux user management script. This new version fixes an Passwd:Unix bug - The library has got an problem with the umask. You can download it on jonas.genannt.name.

You may have noticed that the perl library Passwd::Unix is not available at debian lenny. I have created an ITP #525340 to upload Passwd::Unix into debian.

If my packages passes the NEW-Queue I will create an backport for lenny and upload it to backports.org.

If you have several windows clinets you may need an software deployment system for Windows.

Have a look at wpkg.org. This is an open source software deployment system - It's really great.

WPKG supports many applications. You can also use it, to install hotfixes and service packs.

If you are using libnss-ldap to connect to your LDAP server it's possible that you get the following message on startup

Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar:
Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) -
Can't contact LDAP server udevd[374]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar:
Can't contact LDAP server

This is an known problem, please have a look at the debian BTS: #375215, #375077, #375215

To get it working, you have to add bind_policy soft to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf.

Stuttgart VVS uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to display bus line information at Waiblingen central station.


You can see it on my (bad) photo, an connection problem exists. Perhaps an VVS technician should plug in USB keyboard and press F5 for reload.

If you have several Linux servers with local user accounts and you don't want to use an central based user management like YP/NIS or LDAP, you could use my user management script.

This little perl script allows you to store your complete user and group configuration in an single file per server.

Please have a look at http://jonas.genannt.name/tools/user_mgmt/.