SVN on Apache2 over SSL using Shadow Authentication

18Jun09

Generally, you want to avoid sharing same account for web and system, because if the web account is compromised, the door to the system will be wide open. Not only that, basic authentication by Apache sends password in clear text, any packet sniffer can easily decipher the login credentials.
However, there are cases where authenticating against [...]

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Tags: apache, authentication, DAV, shadow, SSL, SVN

Resizing LVM Partition of ESXi guest

10Jun09

I have a Ubuntu Server running as one of the virtual machine, as my standard practice, I only allocated 8GB for a vanilla installation. Today, one instance of the server requires far more than that, hence requires me to provision more. The thing is, if I had partitioned the virtual disk normally (without LVM), things [...]

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