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New features in socket_wrapper 1.1.0

Maybe you already heard of the cwrap project. A set of tools to create a fully isolated network environment to test client/server components on a single host. socket_wrapper is a part of cwrap and I...

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What is preloading?

by Jakub Hrozek and Andreas Schneider The LD_PRELOAD trick! Preloading is a feature of the dynamic linker (ld). It is a available on most Unix system and allows to load a user specified, shared library...

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How to get real DNS resolving in ‘make test’?

As you might know I’m working (hacking) on Samba. Samba has a DNS implementation to easier integrate all the AD features. The problem is we would like to talk to the DNS server but /etc/resolv.conf...

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A talk about cwrap at LinuxCon Europe

Next week is the LinuxCon Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany. I will be there and give a talk about cwrap, a set of tools to make client/server testing easy on a single machine. Testing network applications...

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resolv_wrapper 1.0.0 – the new cwrap tool

I’ve released a new preloadable wrapper named resolv_wrapper which can be used for nameserver redirection or DNS response faking. It can be used in testing environment to route DNS queries to a real...

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New uid_wrapper with full threading support.

Today I’ve released a new version of uid_wrapper (1.1.0) with full threading support. Robin Hack a colleague of mine spent a lot of time improving the code and writing tests for it. It now survives...

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Hunting down a fd closing bug in Samba

In Samba I had a failing test suite. I have nss_wrapper compiled with debug messages turned on, so it showed me the following line: NWRAP_ERROR(23052) - nwrap_he_parse_line: 3 Invalid line[TDB]: 'DB'...

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uid_wrapper-1.2.0 released!

I’ve just released uid_wrapper-1.2.0, a testing tool to fake privilege separation! The new version correctly checks privileges when changing IDs and has a lot more tests! Learn more at https://cwrap.org.

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Microsoft Catalog Files and Digital Signatures decoded

TL;DR: Parse and print .cat files: parsemscat Introduction Günther Deschner and myself are looking into the new Microsoft Printing Protocol [MS-PAR]. Printing always means you have to deal with...

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Samba 4.7.0 (Samba AD for the Enterprise)

Enterprise distributions like Red Hat or SUSE are required to ship with MIT Kerberos. The reason is that several institutions or governments have a hard requirement for a special Kerberos...

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Samba and GnuTLS

TL;DR SMB3 file transfer with encryption will be 4-6 times faster with Samba 4.12Samba is getting out of the crypto businessGnuTLS >= 3.4.7 requiredFIPS compliance ahead Introduction More or less...

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socket_wrapper 1.3.0 and fd-passing

A new version of socket_wrapper has just been released. In short, socket_wrapper is a library passing all socket communications through unix sockets. It aims to help client/server software development...

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Improved cmdline UX in upcoming Samba 4.15

To the newcomer, Samba’s command line user interface appears to be a haphazard jumble of scripts and binaries with options and design principles that fade in and out of use according to some esoteric...

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