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Thu 29 Nov 2012

Bug Fixes for Liya and LDAP Enabler

Category : Technology/NugFixesForLiyaAndLDAPEnablerforML.txt

I've fixed some bugs for Liya and LDAP Enabler for Mountain Lion.

Liya is now at version 2.0.11 (while the Mac App Store version remains stuck at version 2.0.9). I've fixed Liya so it'll handle SQLite fields declared as Bool. Liya will treat it as an integer, and map it to the NSNumber Cocoa data type.

LDAP Enabler is now at 2.0.2. In version 2.0.1, the password was not set correctly when a user was first created. You had to do a Change & Save Password explicitly to set the password correctly. Version 2.0.2 fixes this bug.

Posted at 2:37PM UTC | permalink

New PostgreSQL 9.2.1 Installer

Category : Technology/PostgreSQL921.txt

I've built a new PostgreSQL 9.2.1 Installer. It's available here: PostgreSQL_Installer_For_MacOSX.zip

I've built it, this time, with these configuration parameters : '--with-pam' '--with-ldap' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi' '--with-bonjour' '--with-openssl' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-tcl'

And it should work on both Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

I've tested that this latest build of Postgres can now authenticate against an LDAP database (set up by LDAP Enabler for Mountain Lion) via PAM. 

I have still to make all this PAM/LDAP goodness work with just one click but at least the mechanisms work and I'll get there eventually. The idea is that you can set up a single logon mechanism via the LDAP database, and with that one userID/password combination, a user can get into the email, database and any other system. Next - I've got to make this work also with MySQL, which surprisingly, is harder to do than with Postgres.

One more thing - I've been troubled that with I've had to create a postgres user in order to run my previous installers. There's already a _postgres user built into every Lion and Mountain Lion system and I ought to be using it. So I've finally figured out how to make everything work with that built-in _postgres user. So, if you use this latest 9.2.1 Postgres Installer, you can safely delete the postgres user from your users' list in the Users & Groups Preference Pane, after you've run the installer and upgraded your current Postgres installation to 9.2.1.

Posted at 8:58AM UTC | permalink

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