Comments for Evan Hoffman's silly writings.

Comment on My Apple tablet prediction. by evan

evan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:32:54 +0000

I was wrong. And it is, apparently, just a big iPod touch. Boring.

Comment on LDAP-Active Directory authentication, Part 3 by evan

evan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:11:29 +0000

There are two ways to modify the unicodePwd attribute. The first is analogous to a typical user change-password operation. In this case, the modify request must contain both a delete operation and an add operation. The delete operation must contain the current password enclosed in quotation marks and be Base64 encoded as described in RFC 1521. The add operation must contain the new password enclosed in quotation marks and be Base64 encoded.

This, however, doesn't work when I bind as the user, only when I bind as an admin.

Comment on Got my first FiOS bill today… by evan

evan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:48:18 +0000

Got this resolved, I think. New first bill amount: $42.17.

Comment on Single sign-on with Linux clients and Active Directory LDAP, Part 1 by evan

evan — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:14:31 +0000

Thanks a lot, Jim! I had seen some of that stuff when I was looking into this, but haven’t had time to try it out yet.

Comment on Single sign-on with Linux clients and Active Directory LDAP, Part 1 by Jim Willeke

Jim Willeke — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:29:26 +0000

Microsoft provides a neat trick to work with bitmasks.

They have defined a matchingrules. We documented this at:
http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/LDAP%20Query%20using%20a%20bitwise%20filter

So putting this to use, you can determine the disabled users with an LDAP filter:
http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/LDAP%20Queries%20AD%20Integration%20Specific#section-LDAP+Queries+AD+Integration+Specific-AllUsersWhoseAccountIsDisabled

Now, figure put how to determine if the password it expired is a bit more involved.
-jim

Comment on I guess I’m getting FiOS… Farewell Cablevision by switched

switched — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:35:02 +0000

I hadCablevision for years, they kept dropping channels so I switches to FIOS triple play. With the boxes, movies and taxes about $150 a month. Switched bact to Cablevision – got free boost, silver package, 3 hd (1DVR), 2 yr price gurantee (not in writing) $121 per month. The TV isn’t even close to FIOS. I see no difference with the phone or internet. Now Fios has offered me $69.99 amonth with 150 cash back. Think I’ve got to go back to FIOS.

Comment on Adsense? by evan

evan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:34:08 +0000

So far it looks like… I was right!

Comment on FiOS it is. by evan

evan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:22:21 +0000

26 mbps down, 21 mbps up with FiOS to my Mac Mini - over wifi!

Comment on Oops… sorry FiOS, I’m sticking with Cablevision. by The Kraken

The Kraken — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:12:44 +0000

FiOS sucks balls! Good call on sticking with your cable operator.
I hate FiOS.

Comment on Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED by evan

evan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:40:05 +0000

Hmm… This seems to work fine on my CentOS 5.4 box, with smbclient 3.0.33.

[evan@lunix ~]$ smbclient --version
Version 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4
[evan@lunix ~]$ rpm -qi samba
Name        : samba                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.0.33                            Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 3.15.el5_4                    Build Date: Tue 27 Oct 2009 04:34:56 PM EDT
Install Date: Sun 01 Nov 2009 12:46:13 PM EST      Build Host: builder16.centos.org
Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM: samba-3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.src.rpm
Size        : 31830159                         License: GNU GPL Version 2
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 28 Oct 2009 07:36:59 AM EDT, Key ID a8a447dce8562897
URL         : http://www.samba.org/
Summary     : The Samba SMB server.
Description :