Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:41:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux, LDAP and the impossibility of handling editable PDFs Message-ID: <20080901113702.U877@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <48BBB022.4030708@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <48BBB022.4030708@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, O. Hartmann wrote: > Several months ago I tried configuring the Linuxulator on several FreeBSD 7.X > boxes, most of them pure amd64 and pure 64 bit (as it is possible with Intels > pseudo 64 bit crap). The reason for that is simple. Having FreeBSD (now > 7.1-PRE) as my favorite OS on servers AND hybrid boxes (acting as > workstations AND small servers) makes life easy - I thought and was touhgt > wrong. > Our administration sends a lot of PDFs around and as it is very usual, our > applications, forms and so on for scientific congresses etc. are all PDF and > subject to be edited. And here it comes that FreeBSD seems to be a definite > deadend! > Using pdfedit is wrong, it can't show or edit any PDF we obtained so far. > Using 'pdftk' fails, it is not made to run in modern 64 bit environments only > when using FreeBSD (linux seems to have no problem, especially Ubuntu does > the thing). So, then I remembered myself about Linuxulator and tried > acrobatviewer - and failed. As in other professional environments we were far > away from using simple user management and therefore there is a LDAP > environment. And, funny, Linuxulator does not contact LDAP even if I try to > configure it to use our LDAP environment. Digging around what flavor of Linux > FreeBSD installs (means: do al ot of work), reading about how to use PAM and > LDAP on Linux (means: doing again additional work in an environment I try to > avoid!) and at last no success, because something is missing or the > Linuxulator should use something for user authentication and autorization it > does not have and uses therefore the FreeBSD stuff and then fails. Especially > for the Acrobat weirdness (or call it software) something like this occurs > whenn attempting starting acrobat reader: > > (acroread:18831): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user > id (2001) > > (acroread:18831): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate > memory) > > > If there is someone here running a 64 bit environment within a LDAP realm and > already got successfully running the Linux add ons as expected for LDAP > users, you are really welcome to give me some hints how to turn around my > frustration and thoughts about definitely leaving the FreeBSD path ... I use a simple workaround to make the Adobe reader (and some other Linux binaries) work - I simply added following entries to the crontab file of root: 00 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent passwd | /usr/bin/sed '1,/nobody/d' > /usr/compat/linux/etc/passwd 2> /dev/null 15 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent group > /usr/compat/linux/etc/group 2> /dev/null Hope that helps a little bit ... Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de
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