Artikel in Kategorie "GNU/Linux"

Protokoll meines Vortrags „Bourne Shell“ bei UUGRN e.V.

Ich hatte am 5.2.2021 die Ehre, einen Vortrag zum Thema „Bourne Shell“ auf der Veranstaltung FIXME der UNIX-User-Group Rhein Neckar, UUGRN e.V. halten zu dürfen. Hier ein Link zu den schriftlichen Aufzeichnungen dazu: https://wiki.uugrn.org/Bourne_Shell Abseits des Vortrags, den ich auch mit Live-Demos usw. durchgeführt habe, hat die Mitschrift nur begrenzten Nutzen, aber die Linkliste am […]

Python3 GTK3 TextView Drag-and-Drop Example

Just a small finger exercise …

Bourne to Bourne Again Shell Forward Compatibility

Introduction In this article i try to find out, if Bourne Shell scripts are runnable in Bourne Again Shell without modification. If not, i advice on how to modify the code so that it runs on both Shells. An interpreter for some variant of Bourne Shell is available as an executable /bin/sh on most Linux […]

Comparing Distinguished LDAP Names

In a Bourne Shell script, a distinguished name (DN) for performing an LDAP-query is held in a variable: dn=“cn=Malmø,ou=County Capitals,dc=Sweden,dc=Europe“ For the purpose of demonstration, this example DN contains a non-ASCII character. Let’s write a Bourne Shell function that escapes such special characters as requested by RFC 4514 using perl’s Net::LDAP::Util: canonical_dn() { perl -s […]

Determining User Access on a Linux Filesystem with „Classic Permissions“

Introduction Looking at a Linux filesystem, checking if a certain file or directory is accessible for reading, writing or executing by certain users or groups poses interesting challenges. Let the basic and seemingly simple question be: „Given a user X and a file Y, can it be determined if X has access to Y, and […]

AD-Precreation using ktutil, kinit and adcli

Using computer object precreation you can enable machines to join an Active Directory domain with knowledge of just one dedicated one-time-password. Combined with delegation you can offload management of computer objects to an otherwise unprivileged AD user.

Drawing a Yellow Rectangle on Android

As an addendum to my previous article, there now also is an Android App „YellowRectangle“ that draws a yellow rectangle and terminates on the first touch event. It runs on Android version 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich MR1) and upward. It is written in Java and C++ and uses the Allegro game development library (http://liballeg.org/).

Drawing A Yellow Rectangle

Premise On the weekend i wanted to perform the task of drawing a yellow rectangle programmatically onto the screen of a Personal Computer: The program would feature a viewport that occupies the entirety of the primary display of the PC. On the viewport, 640 pixels could be adressed in width, 480 in height. The viewport […]