I got an interesting problem to solve today! Top on a server was showing a process named “./john” under “nobody” owner and it was consuming most of the server CPU. Our server admin figured somebody broke into the server. And even started getting reports from other servers that others servers were being attached from this […]

We have a pam_mysql based centralized authentication. We used LDAP earlier but dropped it in favor of MySQL because we are much more familiar with it and we could easily build or integrate other systems around it. This choice has led to a few complications though. One such is address book integration with this database. […]

We wanted to label all our hardware assets and an easy way to track things. As we are moving to a new office, it’s time to try out all the cool things and experiment! Came up with the idea of using bar codes on the labels. We first looked for Macros we could use in […]