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Debugging Shibboleth and “error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate” errors

Friday, July 13, 2007

Mucking about with Shibboleth again, and ran into some errors on the SP, specifically: 2007-07-10 19:49:42 DEBUG SAML.libcurl [79] sessionGet: SSL read: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate, errno 0 This is the “catch-all” error message for Shibboleth OpenSSL Errors. After much research and testing, it was a problem with the IdP, their server was rejecting […]

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CAS Authentication in C#

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

For a recent project I wanted to authenticate using Central Authentication Service (CAS), a single-sign on server deployed world-wide. My project is in ASP.NET, so I hunted down CASP, a C# class produced by John Tantalo at Case Western Reserve University. Coincidentally, John was also responsible for Planarity, a flash game which has only stolen […]

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Pretty icons using CSS and Mark James’ Silk Icons

Friday, May 18, 2007

I recently saw a post via reddit on Rediscovering the button element about making nice buttons with little icons, and was introduced to the Silk Icons available from Mark James. Mark has released these under a Creative Commons Attribution license, any my UIs will be better for it. I went through last night and gave […]

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Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I saw an announcement today that CodePlex, Microsoft’s version of Sourceforge, has released a source control client. From the release: A common theme we’ve heard from our users is the desire to be able to work offline (in the “edit-merge-commit” style) when working on their CodePlex projects. Six months ago, we started working to write […]

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Migrate PuTTY saved sessions

Thursday, February 22, 2007

PuTTY stores its session information in the registry, and there’s no function in PuTTY itself to import/export sessions. This makes moving to a new computer a little sticky. I did some googling and whittled down the documentation for storing configuration in a file into a few steps: On the old computer, open up a command […]

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qpsmtpd-forkserver on debian

Thursday, February 15, 2007

I had some problems getting qpsmtpd-forkserver to run on debian. The punchline: qpsmtpd-forkserver relies on an environment variable called QPSMTPD_CONFIG, which should point to the directory containing your config files. $ export QPSMTPD_CONFIG=/etc/qpsmtp $ qpsmtpd-forkserver … Problem solved. I didn’t want to run qpsmtpd for its standard usage (wrapping a mail server on the same […]

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To Linux / Open Source Advocates

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

I just read another linux advocacy article off of reddit, in this case Five Reasons why Linux will eventually rule the world, and it hit a lot of my pet peeves about these kinds of articles. In a nutshell, for users, all that matters is that their work gets done, and all other arguments are […]

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