Saturday, September 26, 2009

Solarspeed BlueQuartz "unofficial" BETA quality updates

Surfing the Solarspeed.net web site I found in the Knowledge Base a very interesting article: How to install a special updates made by Solarspeed. From a long time there is no a lot -or enough- official updates but there is a lot of things that must be updated/upgraded. Michael Satuber and his team published a lot of modifications for a BlueQuartz server and only a few tweaks are needed to install them. They said that are beta updates but enough stable to use in production.

A small list of improvements (from the original text):
  1. Ability to switch from PAM based authentication to flat files again (minor performance loss, but a lot more stable).
  2. Updated YUM GUI with the ability to exclude RPMs from updates.
  3. German and Danish translation of the GUI.
  4. Improved Active Monitor.
  5. Removal of the defunct APOP checkbox from the GUI.
  6. Ability to disable user owned webs (Example: http://www.company.com/~user/ )
  7. Ability to render FTP usage of non site admin users unuseable (they can still login, but not do anything).
  8. Strong password enforcement. On adding a user or changing his password, the new passwordis checked to see if it is strong enough. Only strong passwords will be accepted. Additionally it is no longer possible to use a password that is identical to the username. Furthermore the strength of the new password is shown while the new password is typed in.
  9. Added the module base-phpsysinfo to the GUI.
  10. Upgraded CMU package.
  11. Various minor and major fixes to existing code.
I don't have a BlueQuartz server, but a Strongbolt one. and everything runs good!

The original article is here.

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