All things open source
It’s been another eventful week with a number of projects I’m working on.
OPIE for Fedora. For those of you playing at home OPIE is One Time Passwords. This allows admins to further secure ssh and general login session by providing users with either a hardware password calculator or a software calculator to provide a one use password . Banks have made this popular with RSA key tokens and plastic looking calculators.
After googling for days I’ve discovered that fedora currently doesn’t have a OPIE server/client or pam libraries to make this possible. Thanks to the good foke at Debian particularly Michael Stone and Freebsd OPIE is well supported and has great active development. Since Debian and Fedora share alot of common code I decided to download the source and patches and give it a whirl. Compiling went well and for all intensive purposes this was a hit. I now have the fun challenge of writing a SPEC file and packaging this up and offer it (once I’ve asked those people that have done the hard work) to you good net folk and maybe a repo or two.
ISC Dhcp on OSX Server. I work quite frequently with OSX Server in office environments and have found the dhcp server that comes with OSX Server lacking in real features compared to ISC dhcp. After googling around on how to get dynamic updates from OSXS DHCP to DNS I came across this great article from MacTroll about ISC DHCP and DNS on Mac OSX Server. This article is great but the only missing is the a dmg/pkg to do the install of ISC DHCP with some nice plist scripts for startup and intergration into the OS.
More googling revealed that Faisal had tried this with reasonable success. Since he not longer maintains this I going to create an updated package with net-boot patches and integrated scripts/install process and see whether this can work well in a production environment.
On the work scene, one of my good colleges is heading to green pastures and leaving us. It said to see good people go. I’m also hunting down a Windows Support Engineer to work with me. I will post here with the P.D when HR draws it up.
Sienaro!