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Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the w...

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other peoples password can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role passwor...

Additional information for your zone configuration.

Sometimes it’s useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is respo...

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after i published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: “Can you...

Changing passwords - revisited

You are an quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Changing passwords - revisited

You are an quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category “Just because you can do it this way, you should not nescessarily do it this way” albeit the biggest problem with usi...