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How does SSO with Active Directory work whereby users are transparently logged in to an intranet web app?

I'm told that it's possible to make a web application that does not require a login. The user logs in to Windows, which authenticates via an Active Directory (LDAP) Lookup. Then, they should be able to go to my webapp and never see a login prompt.…
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Confidential Documentation and the role of the Sysadmin

I've got another interesting one. I'm about to backup and reinstall the HR Administrator's PC. I suspect that the fastest way to do this is to use the Windows 7 Transfer tool, and create a backup of the entire Users and Settings profiles on the…
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subdomain of a subdomain?

I am trying to create url like sub2.sub1.subdomain.domain.com. I am planning to use this to display different content. my questions are... 1) Is it possible to create such multi level sub domains? - is this based on the hosting company? 2) Isn't…
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Why can't I connect to Amazon RDS after setting it up?

So, I just created the Amazon RDS account. And I started an instance of database. The "endpoint" is: abcw3n-prod.cbmbuiv8aakk.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com Great! Now I try to connect to it from one of my other EC2 instances. mysql -uUSER -pPASS…
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What are the implications of having two subnets on the same switch?

Can anyone tell me what some of the implications of having two different subnets on the same switch would be if VLANs are not being used?
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How to find other end of unix socket connection?

I have a process (dbus-daemon) which has many open connection over UNIX sockets. One of these connections is fd #36: =$ ps uw -p 23284 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND depesz 23284 0.0 0.0 24680 1772 ? …
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Permission denied while reading upstream

We have deployed our rails application on on Nginx and passenger. Intermittently, pages of application get loaded partially. There is no error in application log, but the Nginx error log shows the following: 2011/02/14 05:49:34 [crit] 25389#0: *645…
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How to determine the "age" of a linux system since installation?

I thought that I could easily check the timestamp of particular files. Then I realized that it wouldn't be so easy when I saw timestamps like 1991.
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Difference between and Apache directives

I have Zend Server installed and noticed something like the following was added to my httpd.conf file: Order Allow,Deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 Alias /ZendServer "C:\Program…
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How can I tell which config file Apache is using?

I'm trying to set up virtual hosts on Mac OS X. I've been modifying httpd.conf and restarting the server, but haven't had any luck in getting it to work. Furthermore, I notice that it's not serving files in the DocumentRoot mentioned in httpd.conf…
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Cable Management Policy

We've all seen good and bad examples of cable management. What are objective, measurable requirements that can be used in a policy to maintain cabling order in the rack/server room/data center? I'm not looking for "Don't do spaghetti wiring!" but…
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Gaining administrator privileges in PowerShell

I only have one account on my Windows Vista machine, and that user has administrative privileges. However, when I try to execute a command within PowerShell to kill a certain process, I'm greeted with an "Access is denied" message. How do I become…
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SSH session drops - Does the command continue executing?

If I was running a command before the SSH connection was dropped, will the command continue executing?
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Does HTTPS use TCP or UDP?

Does HTTPS use TCP or UDP?
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Recursive text search with grep and file patterns

Given this example folder structure: /folder1/file1.txt /folder1/file2.djd /folder2/file3.txt /folder2/file2.fha How do I do a recursive text search on all *.txt files with grep from "/"? ("grep -r *.txt" fails when run from "/", since…
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