Tag: authentication
Automating User Authentication with Authconfig
Modern computer infrastructure tends to consist of many machines, with multiple services running on them. Keeping local user accounts in sync on all these...
Enjoy Better Flexibility in Granting File System Permissions with Access Control...
ACLs provide additional and more flexible permissions for file systems. They give better control over who can read, write and execute a file or...
Security without Passwords
Passwords have their own inherent vulnerabilities. They are prone to being forgotten and sometimes being hacked. While a strong password can provide security, there...
The Best Open Source Storage Solutions: An Overview
Millions of bytes of data are being generated every moment, every day, around the world, and this volume will only increase in the future....
Build Your Own Private Cloud with Eucalyptus
Now empower your organisation the open source way! Learn about the Eucalyptus private cloud platform and then go on to install, configure and work...
Setting Up OpenAM for Web Authentication
OpenAM provides a system for integrating diverse Web applications-to share common authentication and authorisation systems. It can protect applications running on any Web or...
Set Up a Certificate Authority in RHEL5
Security certificates are widely used for authentication. This article explores how to set up a Certificate Authority in RHEL5.
Security certificates are basically used for...
A Primer On WSGI
This article shows you how to make money and have fun with some code, Python and the Internet. It all starts with a four...
Modify-function-return-value Hack! — Part 1
Sometimes it's helpful to think from a hacker's perspective. The information obtained can be used to write better code and a secure application. An...
Gitolite: Administer a Central Git Repository without Going Insane
Over the past few years, centralised version control systems like SVN have steadily given way to distributed systems like Git or Mercurial -- the...