Mon, 18 Apr 2011
Slides online
I've just put the slides of my LOADays kerberos/ldap talk online. The talk wasn't recorded, and most of the interesting bits were in what I said rather than what's in the slides, but maybe someone finds them interesting. There's also slightly more information in the handouts, though even that doesn't contain everything I said during the talk.
I'll also point to these three articles in my blog, which I wrote a few years ago, and which explain how kerberos works and how you should set it up.
If all else fails, and you have a budget, I do have rates. Or catch me on IRC :-)
Sat, 16 Apr 2011
Loadays 2011
Went to loadays, where I did a talk on "Single sign-on with Kerberos and LDAP". Or, at least, that was the intention—when I found out that there was going to be a tutorial on LDAP the next day, I decided to focus my talk mostly on kerberos, only lightly touching LDAP. As it turned out, that was a great decision—I could easily fill a whole hour on Kerberos, anyway, and though doing a kerberos setup without doing ldap too is fairly silly, doing it properly would have required more time than was assigned to me.
Instead, I managed to talk the audience through most of the important theory about kerberos (things like "what is a principal", "what is a ticket", etc), and did a live demo in which I configured a kerberos realm on a virtual machine, and then used SSH to connect—passwordless—to that machine from a second virtual machine on the same virtual network. While I would've loved to make it even better by throwing in a kerberized HTTP configuration, I couldn't do much more than just mention the fact that it can be done—as is the case for sasl-enabled protocols (imap, ldap, smtp, etc) and some other things.
The talk seems to have been a success with the audience, too; the room itself was full, nobody actually left (which usually is a good sign in and of itself), and I got only positive feedback from the people who were there; one person even went so far as to say that he considerd it the best talk he'd seen thus far, today. Which I think is pretty high praise, considering how my talk was in the penultimate time slot.
All in all, a good day.
Mon, 12 Apr 2010
LOAD is over...
...and I think it went well. As someone who does some sysadmin-for-hire work, it does fit me quite well. I did my "Debian Secrets" talk again, which had moderate success: some people had already seen it at FOSDEM--which is normal, considering how the room was crowded back then--so they missed it this time around. Those who had seen it seemed to be fairly interested in what I had to say, so that's good.
Of course, while there, it made sense to pick up a few other talks, which I did; and I learned some interesting things in the process. I mostly liked the GOsa² one, but there were some other interesting ones, too.
Had I not been in Deurne for the concert of the choir on Saturday evening, I would even have won a book. But apparently the rules said that you couldn't win books if you weren't there...
All in all, I think it was a rather successful event; and if there's a repeat next year, I'll certainly attend again.
Thu, 01 Apr 2010
LOAD
No, I'm not reverting to the commodore 64. LOAD stands for 'Linux Open Administration Days' and is a community event targetted at sysadmins.
This being quite obvious, as I have a talk on the schedule. It'll be a repeat of my 'Debian Secrets' talk that I've also done at FOSDEM, in Essen, and in Buenos Aires. Except it will be better than it was at FOSDEM.
I'll be there the whole of saturday. Not sure yet about Sunday.
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