Quite common usage scenario is a Postfix mail server with a Mailman instance for groups. Even more often the accounts for the mail are stored in an LDAP tree. And in this case a problem appears, because Mailman doesn’t have a native connection to LDAP. That’s why I needed to have an LDAP 2 Mailman [...]

Peteris Krumins has recently written in his blog a very nice article on basic security of sysadmins. He exploits, or… maybe a better word here is… evaluates a door that is there in ldd for ages, but neverthelesss not many sysadmins are aware of it, while checking user programs with ldd from root account. This [...]

Today I had to recover a machine from a disastrous power failure (yes, I had a UPS but it didn’t manage :P). The results was as usual: Kernel panic: Not syncing!! /sbin/init not found Doesn’t sound nice, does it? It wasn’t. My whole /lib was gone… I had to boot with root mounted to my [...]

This is a short article on how to get the above Mantis version to work with Microsoft Windows Active Directory LDAP. Used Mantis version: 1.1.1 and PHP Version 5