CrowdLess – Make Crowd less crowded


Crowd is Atlassian centralized identity management tool. Since Crowd 2.7, the Active Directory Connector is able to sync the disabled flag from Active Directory to Crowd. But if you are using older version or other connectors (e.g Delegated Authentication Directory), then you may run into the issue that users are disabled in Active Directory are … Continue reading CrowdLess – Make Crowd less crowded

Fault Tolerant VPN Solution on AWS


I worked with a project team to help them to improve their current VPN infrastructure on AWS. They have 3 VPN EC2 instances, let's call them VPN01, VPN02 and VPN03. They are all OpenVPN Access Server, VPN01 and VPN02 both have 10 concurrent sessions license, and in availability a and b respectively. VPN03 only has … Continue reading Fault Tolerant VPN Solution on AWS

ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


When installing a python module, if you see similar error like ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  ---------------------------------------- Command "/usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-RZWd8I/cryptography/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-nle_4p-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-RZWd8I/cryptography It is normally caused by that the file … Continue reading ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory