Password Expiry Notification June 19, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : sysadmin, work , add a commentProblem:
We need a method to notify users who are not logging into Active Directory (ie: Mac and Linux users) that their password is going to expire.
Solution #1: Password Notification Identity Manager Driver
Description: This is an Identity Manager Loopback Driver that watches for password events in your directory and notifies users (via email) that their password is going to expire.
Issue: Does not work as designed, requires MAJOR FREAKIN’ REWRITES (xslt, yuck)! The driver pseudo-works for detecting users who have limited Grace Login levels. It completely fails on trying to notify users that their password is going to expire.
Solution #2: Password Expiration Email Notification
Description: This is a console-based java application that runs out of CRON every night. It is supposed to scan the defined containers in your directory and notify users (via emai) that their passwords are going to expire in defined intervals (30,15,5,3,1 day(s)) and send them a URL to the self-service portal. It also identifies users whose passwords have already expired and notifies them to contact the IT Help Desk.
Issue: Missing something. I have it working in a not-so-working state. For whatever reason, it detects all levels (set to expire and expired) as expired and notifies me as such. Time to hack away at the java source.
Published (well, sorta…) May 1, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : sysadmin, work , add a commentI recently submitted a HOWTO article to Novell CoolSolutions(TM). Here is the link. I was pretty excited about it, especially since I found out that every time you submit an article or tip, you get points. These points can then be redeemed for cool prizes!
I have yet to decide what I want, but I am quite certain I don’t want the T-Shirt.
At any rate, I was excited about the entire thing. It turns out not many people have made the Remote Loader actually function on a Debain Linux server. For those of you who don’t know, the Remote Loader is an application layer service that serves as an interface between your connected system, in this case a comma-delimited text file, and Novell Identity Manager. I could probably ramble on about how cool all of this technology is, but I think I might need to do a little work today, so until I have some time, OUT!.
upgrade! April 27, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : sysadmin , 1 comment so farI must say, I love Linux:
16:22:26 up 634 days, 7:11, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
I managed to upgrade WordPress to 2.0.something. It’s a lot different on the posting side, but the end-user side looks the same. I can’t decide if the WYSIWYG editor is a good thing or a bad thing. I just know it is very very slow (and by slow I mean f***ing slow) in my browser.