Dropbox alternatives

At this moment I enjoy the sharing and storing possibilities of my Dropbox account and since I got my HTC one S the amount of available storage increased to 25Gb (for 2 years). I share documents and files with my wife, family and friends. We use it for sharing files between members of our local Scouting club, etc.. And even with it's ease of use it's not enough to silence that nagging feeling: it's not your own storage.
When I find the time I think i'm going to do testsetup of Owncloud. It's free and it runs on your own server/storage.

http://owncloud.org/

For those seeking a cloudstorage option for Windows and Linux (no Mac support yet), try Ubuntu One. It gives 5 Gb instead of the free 2Gb at Dropbox.

https://one.ubuntu.com/

When speaking of cloudstorage I feel obliged to mention one of the granddadies of cloudstorage (before we started calling cloud to anything remote or a bunch of servers together) : iFolder. Developed at Novell, released in 2001 and now a open source project.

http://ifolder.com/ifolder

FreeBSD - OpenLDAP and FreeRADIUS part 2

The OpenLDAP server is running and now I have to implement the design for the directory I want to use. Before I can start entering all ou,dc,cn-info I'm going add a password for the slapd-daemon and generate a hash for in the slapd-config file. There are several hash-schemes for the password but I'm going to use the MD5-hash:

slappasswd -h {MD5}

This command asks for a password and after entering one, it generates a hash.

New password:
Re-enter new password:
{MD5}1iB8sGXpjoNB5Ra2copmjQ==
[root@fbsd-radius ~]#

Copy this hash, we're going to need it later

FreeBSD - OpenLDAP and FreeRADIUS part 1

At the moment I have a Cisco 1231 access point in use and I was wondering if I could use OpenLDAP in combination with FreeRadius to do some authentication for my wireless clients. Next to that I want a setup to test Radius authentication with an ASA 5505. Since I'm still in a FreeBSD mood and the current OpenLDAP implementation on Ubuntu is way too complex for a simple setup I decided to stay with the red daemon.

A small rant:
In the 90's I started working with Novell Directory Services/eDirectory up until version 8.8 a few years ago. Did some LDAP work on Active Directory. Had Mac OSX clients authenticate to eDirectory and AD even with drive mappings etc.. It was not always easy but we got there..... It's 2012 now,  then why do I have to enter several unreadable CLI commands (yep even unreadable for an experienced linux user) in Ubuntu just to add a Samba schema. I'm certainly not afraid of CLI but this is not the 80's anymore. If you're able to write create an ubercomplex configsystem, like the one found in the current Ubuntu-version, you're also able to write a decent tool to manage it!! 

First I created a FreeBSD setup as I described earlier (up until the installation of my favourite tools). After FreeBSD was installed I continued with OpenLDAP.