Friday, September 5, 2025

Using vi to edit files on an AWS instance can cause strange characters to be inserted

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 This is a short one because I came across it the other day and I almost freaked out. I ssh'd into an AWS Alpine Linux instance using Mo...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

IBM Identity Manger recons hanging and apparent memory leak in JVM

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Background Two-node WebSphere cell, with two clusters - ITIM_Application and ITIM_Messaging, so two application servers per node (timapp1 an...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

COMPLETELY cryptographically synchronizing two IBM Directory Servers

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Background This documentation exists to cryptographically sync two IBM Directory Server instances . That mostly works for the main LDAP dire...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

ldapsearch error: "scope is required for a null based search"

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This command: ldapsearch -D  binduser@acme.com  -w ? -h globalADcatalog -b DC=acme,DC=com cn=myuser Will sometimes give the error: scope is ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Customizing IDI Linux Adapter - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: isDollarAllowedInPwd

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I was just looking at customizing the IDI Linux Adapter. I unzipped PosixLinuxProfile.jar and imported posixAdd.xml into my project in the I...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Using IDI to convert ISIM audit XML data into HTML

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 Related to my last post, I made a video covering the IDI assemblyline I wrote to convert ISIM audit XML data to HTML. Here's the video:...

XSLT for ISIM Audit XML Data

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 I made a video on using XSLT to convert ISIM's XML reconciliation audit data into more readable XML. Specifically, it takes XML that lo...