jpr's blog

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We need to be cautious about following globus/vdt instructions to a tee.
One of the things that seems to be happening is that the PATH is getting
redifined to put all the globus software first. While this is ok for end
user accounts, it's not ok for root. We need to make sure that root does
not have it's path defined to include globus tools. Case in point, if
globus is in the path and you restart sshd you'll get the globus sshd.
This is not desirable. This path redefinition can also be problematic
when building software (even as an end user).

seems that the problem to compiling shib with the embedded mysql server
is not in the shib configuration but in the mysql_config script
distributed with mysql. this script lists the libraries needed to link
the mysqld embedded server and seems to ommit "-lz" (the compression
library) for the libs needed to link the embedded server. adding this lib
to the shib ./configure script works around this problem. you can simply
do a:

LDLIBS=-lz ./configure ...

This seems to be a problem with the 4.1.10 mysql rpm from mysql.com and
doesn't fix itself even when I build the rpm locally.

doesn't look like its worth trying to get existing mysql session mgr for
shib working since comments describe it as a two level cache with the
attributes remaining in ram. will need to look at this more closely.
don't need to worry about it for now. need ldap database and vo mgm up
more pressing.

would need to build a attribute cache backend that stores the attributes
into the voaa origin aa cache or build that shib shim that captures the
attributes during the vo origin hs processing after the shib
authentication is done.

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have had no luck with the test code and can't figure out why it's failing.
google doesn't seem to be of help. mysql.com doesn't seem to indicate any
problems with mysql embedded. and my test embedded build absolutely
refuses to link. if i do the build/link in one step i get an undefined
function mysql_server_init, if I do it in two steps I get complaints about
references to compress which I can't figure out how to resolve.

there doesn't seem to be anything special about linking the embedded db
according to the docs. the only diff between embedded and non-embedded is
that mysql_init_server() is not an empty stub in the embedded version.

got the double shib redirect working so now we have one shib install
protected by another. this is working nicely and feeding remote user
through. now just have to set up distinct ldap database for vo and get the
open subscription id provider "id" working. also need to refine the arp
and aap so the vo system env gets a consist set of attributes from the vo
database.

got the shib infrastructure working after gaining understanding of the
keyname field in IQ-trusts.xml and shibboleth.xml. set up ~jpr/test/shib
url and successfully passed in my uid from uab ldap as the remote_user
value. long day. tomorrow i can focus on a general purpose ldap service.

i don't understand why drupal separates comments out as a distinct
content type. it seems like it would be better to consider everything as
a node, ie. inherited from a node type. this would potentially enable
a common display framework with different renders. it also seems like
having all node type be identically defined, that is no second class
types, would help make the content rendering easier. eg. the node table
types would be anything defined by the taxonomy and the base set could
be the standard story, blog, page, etc. types. the legit content would
the simply be defined by the type tag. additional tables could be used

the d**n test forum gateway isn't working, spent most of the afternoon
trying to make the forum posts look better. never found the cause of the
bad and inconsistent-across-posts formatting.

formaat with a special chcar
> thorown in for
fun

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