Another day runs by

I would love to tell you what I did today, but I can’t really remember.

I remember thinking about network filesystems a bunch. I handled a few issues for customers. I went to the Fresh Market and Just Fresh. I spilled a stupid container of Minestrone soup on the floor.

The major accomplishment for the day, perhaps, is learning enough of the RT API to add the client name, if it exists, to the end of a ticket’s subject in the RT search screen. I’d publish my changes to one of the Mason templates, but they’re pretty specific to our setup so I don’t really think they’d be useful to others. I’m in the middle of setting up queues and assigning ACLs in RT right now.

In the process of playing with RT I seem to be hitting Mozilla bug 137867 a bunch. I got worried at first because I thought it was my new Mozilla build locking up when I was scrolling in a list box or something. As it turns out I think this is the bug I was experiencing. I note that, come this April, this bug will have been open for a year.

I also obtained Gang Starr’s Hard to Earn. It’s quite good; recommended. Also got the new Roots album, Phrenology. It’s not bad either, but I don’t think I like it as much as Things Fall Apart. At least, not yet.

On the subject of making Samba and Kerberos play nice without an Active Directory server, check out CVS comments for a check-in of sesssetup.c in Samba from 2001:

finished auth when we get a valid kerberos ticket

smbd now works with kerberos authentication if you use a MIT KDC and
smbclient. Next step is to make it work with a windows client

Maybe there’s hope? Haven’t tried yet, but I am working on getting the Samba 3.0 alpha RPMs to build on RH 8.0. Also took down the Heimdal KDC and put MIT back up.