========== SID LDAP

Vagrant

We use Vagrant to create a CentOS VM and install LDAP, Apache, Trac, SVN, etc.

To create from scratch::

vagrant up

To re-provision::

vagrant provision

To destroy the VM so you can create a fresh one::

vagrant destroy

You can get to the VM from this directory with::

vagrant ssh

Vagrant creates a proxy so you can get to the VMs web server at:

http://localhost:65080/ http://localhost:65080/trac/project1

Puppet

Vagrant uses Puppet to install software and configure the system. The config file is in manifests/sid_ldap.pp.

After Vagrant runs, it mounts this file on the VM so you can invoke it there, verbosely, with::

vagrant ssh sudo puppet apply -v /tmp/vagrant-puppet/manifests/sid_ldap.pp

Any changes to the file you make on the VM are made to the file here since it's a vbox mount, acting much like NFS.

Yum Problem

On 2011-09-26 the Puppet install failed, due repo specs that were not found. It appears /etc/yum.repos.d/elff.repo and its cache in /var/cache/yum/elff. They reference a server download.elff.bravenet.com which appears to prefer to be called download.bravehost.com. Work around this by moving the repo spec and removing the cache in the Puppet manifest.

Testing Login

LDAP is configured here with two users, 'user1' and 'user2'; their password is identical to their user name. Use these to verify Trac authentication works.