Adam Young’s Web Log

Everyone at FUDcon posts a FUDcon update. Everyone at OLS posts and OLS update. They come in massive blocks, and I personally can’t process them all. Adam doesn’t scale. Instead, please post a shorter post with the crucial piece or pieces that you’ve learned, and title it that way. You can mention that you learned it at Fudcon, but please provide a better orienting title to you post. I do really want to read them. Since I can’t make it to all the conferences, I count on you, the community, to provide a filter.

Openstack Keystone is the Identity Management (IdM) gateway for the rest of the Openstack infrastructure.  While it is fairly new code, and not feature complete as of yet,  it does show some interesting aspects of cloud identity management and the issues it involves.  That, of course, begets the question of what is required in a cloud Identity Management gateway.

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So I watched the latest Muppet Movie with my family this weekend and it go me thinking: who would I cast for a Muppet Version of the Princess Bride?

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I was working at a local coffee shop when I noticed an old man walk in.  His hat had a Yin Yang on it.  It struck a memory and I Googled for a list of US Army division patches.  Easy access to modern technology told me more than I expected.  The 29th Infantry Division, the Blue and the Gray, landed at Bloody Omaha on June 6th, 1944.

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My calculations on Eight Tone Scales was way too manually intensive for me to trust that I got it right. I should check my work.

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How many Eight Tone Scales are there? At first glance, this might seem like a simple CS GRE type question: there are 12 notes, so it would be 12 select 8 unordered.  Not quite:
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Chatting with co-worker Emily on the bus last night about REST, Git, and IPA lead to an epiphany of sorts. First, a little background.

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An Identity Management Solution is no good if you can’t use it from your server applications.  Here are the steps you can go through to get your server working along side FreeIPA.

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Kerberos is a single sign on solution. AFAICT, it is the only one that solves the problem completely: You confirm that you are who you say you are, and the remote side confirms that it is who you think it is. It doesn’t work over he public internet only due to the fact that most corporate firewalls block the ports it needs.  So  we want to be able to do Kerberos, or its equivalent from the browser.

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The Dogtag PKI project is a long  lived project.  It is a Java Web Server based application that predates many of the technologies that now are standards of Java Web development.  One requirement that has changed over time is how to access the server remotely.
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