SSH Key Authentication

Memories of ATT Live 2010 are still fresh in my mind. It was a great event at a great location, The M in Las Vegas, NV. Novell customers and partners alike told us they were very happy with it. The Novell Training team was also extremely pleased with how it turned out. The venue was great, the location was perfect, and let's not forget how effective and beneficial the training was. I am excited to be part of the team again that is putting together ATT Live 2012. Due to the Attachmate acquisition, the heritage Novell/SUSE Training team is now also responsible for NetIQ training, so this is an exciting time for us and even greater opportunity than ever before for you.

The main reason you'll want to attend ATT Live 2012 is: you get 4 days of intense, hands-on training geared specifically for people like you--system administrators, network engineers and IT specialists--who actually do the job of administering Novell, SUSE and NetIQ products. You get the real world, day-to-day administration, usability, troubleshooting, and tips & tricks training you need to succeed on the job.

I blogged a little bit about ATT Live a couple months ago but the planning for the event is more complete now and there's more detailed information to share today that I wanted make you aware of. In addition to the general facts that ATT Live 2012 will be held May 15-18 at The M Resort Spa and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, I wanted to point out several exciting things you'll want to look at today:

• The earlybird price of $1400 is available until March 30 (full price will be $1795 after that)
• Testing and certification is free
• The website, www.novell.com/training/attlive/, has gone live and all the sessions are listed at www.novell.com/training/attlive/sessions.html

This year we are offering nearly 80 unique 2- and 4-hour sessions with:

• 6 tracks dedicated to the Novell products ZEN, OES and GW
• 3 NetIQ tracks focused on ISM, Sentinel, and legacy NetIQ products
• 3 SUSE tracks focused on SLES administration, usability and troubleshooting

At ATT Live 2012 you'll be rubbing shoulders with product managers, subject matter experts, and front & backline support engineers who will be helping the Training team to deliver more learning tracks and unique sessions than ever before.

Once you're at the M Resort you'll find this to be a very affordable training event. The conference room rate is only $120 per night. The food is great (The M has the best buffet in Las Vegas) and breakfast and lunch all 4 days are covered by your conference registration. And you'll only be 10 minutes from the airport and from The Strip with free shuttles to and from both destinations.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding ATT Live 2012, you can check the website or email the team at ATTLive@novell.com.

As for me, I'll be blogging more about ATT Live 2012 in the weeks to come to provide more detailed information about the content of the sessions themselves. This is, after all, a technical training conference and it's the technical stuff that matters most to you so I'll be diving into that so you'll have more of an idea about what you'll be getting in return for your training investment.

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Whilst the previous Cool Solution only redirected urlclassifer3.sqlite, this method redirected urlclassifer3.sqlite, Cache, OfflineCache and the fastloader files XUL.mfasl XPC.mfasl. This method also uses environment variables rather than creating a symbolic link, so it's cleaner.

I figured out this solution after reading a bug report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239254

The trick is to launch Firefox with both $XRE_PROFILE_PATH set to the location of the profile that's being used and $XRE_PROFILE_LOCAL_PATH set to where you want Cache, urlclassifer3.sqlite etc to be. Like the previous Cool Solution, a wrapper script called firefox in /usr/local/bin takes care of that. Also like the previous Cool Solution, this wrapper script makes use of another script findfirefoxprofilepath, also attached, which works out the location of the user's Firefox profile (it's output is set as the value of $XRE_PROFILE_PATH). The firefox script expects the findfirefoxprofilepath script to be in /usr/local/sbin.

If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, the firefox script sets $XRE_PROFILE_LOCAL_PATH to somewhere in there. (It will always use the same location so the files will persist across sessions, assuming they're not deleted by something else.) If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not set then a new directory will be created each time using mktemp.

I've had this script in use in a production environment for about five months with no apparent problems and I've tested it with newer versions of Firefox than are currently in SLED. Hopefully Firefox will one day support the XDG directory specification and then a wrapper script such as this will not be necessary, you can just set $XDG_CACHE_HOME and be done with it. (I already set $XDG_CACHE_HOME to somewhere outside the user's home directory, hence why this wrapper scripts makes use of it if it's set.) The bugzilla entries for such support were raised some years ago though so I'm not expecting such support to appear any time soon.

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Setup Process:

Step #1 - Configure the desktop to automatically login.

1. Launch YaST or YaST2
2. Click on System-->Sysconfig Editor-->Desktop-->Displaymanager-->displaymanager_autologin
3. Enter the username used in logging into the desktop.

 
Now after the workstation is rebooted, the workstation should automatically do a local login to the desktop.

Step #2 - Configure the Novell Client for Linux to automatically login.

Option A: Use a script

• Edit and append the following lines to the /home/<username>/.profile.

#===================================
 
#USER="<mylocaluser>"
USER="<username>"
 
#SERVER="<myserver.novell.com>"
SERVER="<dns or IP>"
 
#VOLUME="SYS"
VOLUME="<volume>"
 
#EDIR_USER="<admin>"
EDIR_USER="<edir user>"
 
#EDIR_PASWORD="<novell>"
EDIR_PASWORD="<password>"
 
#EDIR_USER_CONTEXT="<ou=users,o=novell>"
EDIR_USER_CONTEXT="<edir context for user>"
 
#MAPLOCATION="</home/jmeldrum/Desktop/mymap>"
MAPLOCATION="<map location and name>"
 

loggedIn="$(nwconnections | sed -n "/[0-9]/p")"
 
if [ $(whoami) == "$USER" ]; then
        if [ -z "$loggedIn" ]; then
                echo "=========`date` ================" >> /tmp/mylogin.log
                /opt/novell/ncl/bin/nwmap -d $MAPLOCATION -s SERVER -v $VOLUME -u $EDIR_USER -p $EDIR_PASWORD-c $EDIR_USER_CONTEXT 2&1 >> /tmp/mylogin.log
        fi
else
        echo "$(whoami) does not match user $USER" >> /tmp/mylogin.log
fi
#===================================

Option B: Setup Integrated Login

AutoAdminLogon is now setup.