Our beta-test kiosk-workstation is now tested and so this system is ready to clone to our other workstation. The following procedures take off from where, in my previous article, I created a tar backup of system root filesystem (i.e. ‘/’). In the mean time, the buzzard learned how to attach a physical disk to a…
Here are descriptions of some workarounds we developed to allow old versions of Bruker Topspin™ to run on CentOS 7. Network Interface Names The old traditional interface names are hard coded into old versions of of Topspin. The software expects that an interface named “eth0” will be the external (i.e. public) network interface and eth1…
Here is archival documentation of the U.W. Dept. of Chemistry’s project of outsourcing email service from 2014 to 2015. A phased implementation allowed us to outsource SMTP, IMAP and POP3 services without interruption of service. To facilitate the migration of approximately 100 email accounts, I prepared the following email user migration guide to migrations and migration…
Backing up a CentOS Physical Machine and Cloning it as a Virtual Machine The CentOS 7 version of the NMR Console software configuration is currently installed in “production” mode on host named AV301.chem.washington.edu. We want to capture a backup of the current, production configuration, in a format that will serve as a backup in the…
To test my LDI/sssd configuration, I did a clean build of CentOS 7 with Xfce. I configured sssd to use my LDI OU (‘chem’) and the NETID.WASHINGTON.EDU kerberos domain. I built this as a vm on VirtualBox v.5.1.22. After configuring and testing I deleted my private key and cleaned up the image prior to exporting…
I describe here the setup of CentOS 7 with sssd for login with UW kerberos and LDI. First you must have your LDI OU created and set up your client cert The default installation of CentOS7 will incude the packages needed. Set selinux to ‘permissive’ until you get things working. After, you can deal with…
Mounting UDrive “Single-Sign-On” Context: ‘UW‘ is the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. ‘UDrive‘ is a UW brand name for a unit of CIF network storage (a.k.a. a cloud drive) provided to each member of the UW community, identified by her UW NetID. ‘NetID‘ is the campus-wide network ID assigned to each community member, with…
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