[SAC] osgeo1 - ldap

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

John was having problems logging into hypervisor using the OSGeo LDAP
access and it turns out the issue was that the johng and gupteshwar
account had the same uidNumber value.  I have a mechanism to ensure the
web script that enables shell access does not duplicate uidNumber values
but it appears that one or more previously created values overlapped.

I deleted the johng account, and it was recreated to resolve this
circumstance, but it might happen to others.

Also, I discovered that /var/log/local4, the ldap daemon log file,
had grown to 13GB on osgeo1.  I disabled logging in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
and restarted the service and then deleted the old log file.

We can re-enable logging when exmaining problems, but should not likely
leave it active - at least a the level it was at.

PS. I believe John is willing to provide extensive OSGeo access to
hypervisor (or perhaps it's twin?) and it is a heck of a machine.
Suitable to run a number of VMs.  It would be sweet if we could actually
sling VMs back and forth between OSU OSL and hypervisor.  I think the most
obvious VM(s) I'd like to have on hypervisor would be a Linux and a
Windows build slave for buildbot.  Anyone interested in taking on that
task?

I particular we have pretty much depended on Tamas' windows machine
for windows buildbot slaves but it isn't all that reliable.  I'm not
sure if it is connection problems, overloading or what.  So a windows
buildslave at telascience would be wonderful.

Best regards,
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