Today I have had to deal with an environment where I had to fix a lot of sysvol permissions, with a lot of different policies with different permissions. I had begun doing it by hand using samba-tool ntacl set sddl-ACL…
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Just wrote a small article on how to deploy a HTTPS transparent proxy with Zentyal. Please note that this is a POC only, so not intended for production….
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Hope it may be interesting for all of you!
Syncing Zentyal CA between two Zentyal servers
This document describes the procedure to set up CA sync between two Zentyal servers. We will use for this rsync being run in a cron job. We will use root in the side that starts the connection (provided script will…
Mail server in Zentyal – Understanding differences between Mail and Groupware modules
Many people get confused when installed Zentyal about the differences between Zentyal Mail and Zentyal Groupware modules. Zentyal provides mail functionality through Zentyal Mail module. It uses Postfix as the daemon to provide smtp functionality, and Dovecot as the daemon…
Testing a squid ACL
Imagine you have configured your squid, with dansguardian, and a shallalist. You launch squid and… bump, it says that one of your ACL’s is a bungled one. You check syntax… and it’s perfect. What the hell is happening here? Well,…
Removing incorrect characters in files
Today I realized that in some files I used, I had a | character that provoked them to be of little use (and provoke misconfiguration on the system), so I thought of removing them in a row. The choice was…
Updating packages from a folder
Today I had to update a set of installed packages from a folder, but in that folder there were some deb packages that were not installed and that I did not want to install, so I thought of doing a…
Zentyal Bulk LDAP passwords change
This is a small script I have done today in Zentyal that allows you to change the passwords of all users in LDAP. It creates a file /tmp/usuarios.csv with the users and their new passwords #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings;…
Remote identification and storage
Developing an environment of remote home folders under Linux with NFS and LDAP auth is a common task. But there are some cases in which this approach might not be the best one, as you might find some issue to…