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Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition

Duffy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:28:48 +0000

After installing windows 7 you will be greeted with a user creation prompt press shift+f10 and you should get a cmd window up like in the image below

Copy the Users Profiles, Program Files And ProgramData Folders onto the Partition you want to use

robocopy "C:\Users" "D:\Users" /E /COPYALL /XJ
robocopy "C:\Program Files" "D:\Program Files" /E /COPYALL /XJ
robocopy "C:\ProgramData" "D:\ProgramData" /E /COPYALL /XJ

Delete the old folders and create links
For Program Files:
```
rmdir "C:\Program Files" /S /Q
mklink /J "C:\Program Files" "D:\Program Files"
```
For the User Profiles:
```
rmdir "C:\users" /S /Q
mklink /J "C:\users" "D:\users"
```
and lastly ProgramData:
```
rmdir "C:\ProgramData" /S /Q
mklink /J "C:\ProgramData "D:\ProgramData"
```
If you have any permissions issues while deleting C:\ProgramData don't worry about them just try to delete it and make the links again after first reboot
Now open regedit simply by typing regedit on the cmd window
To change the program files path navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion and edit the ProgramFilesDir and CommonFilesDir as needed
For the user profiles you'll need to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and again edit the paths as needed
Exit Regedit and the cmd window
Continue to create your user
Reboot your machine and you should be good to go

Nano write check before editing

Duffy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:29:35 +0000

Have you ever been using nano to edit a long configuration file and when you've just finished you go to save and you get "Error writing /dir/somefile: Permission denied" as you've forgotten to use sudo or switch user if so this tutorial might just be your solution. What this does is it runs a script to check if you have write access on the file if you do it will continue and open nano as normal if you don't it will ask you do you want to continue so lets get started

Save the following to /usr/bin/writecheck

#!/bin/bash
FILE="$1"

[ $# -eq 0 ] && exit 1

if [ -w "$FILE" ]
then
nano $FILE
else
   echo "You Do Not Have Write Acess To $FILE"
   echo -n "Do You Want To Continue (y/n)?"
   read reply
   [ $reply == "y" ] && nano $FILE
fi

Allow the script to be executed
```
chmod +x /usr/bin/writecheck
```

Finally we need to add a alias for it

echo "alias nano='writecheck'" >> /etc/bash.bashrc

How to setup a LDAP Server

Duffy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:50:29 +0000

Installation

We need to install the ldap packages

apt-get install slapd ldap-utils migrationtools

Answer the questions and then use dpkg to reconfigure slapd for more options

dpkg-reconfigure slapd

Omit OpenLDAP server configuration? ... No
DNS domain name: ... home.local
Name of your organization: ... home
Admin Password: some-really-strong-password
Confirm Password: some-really-strong-password
OK
BDB
Do you want your database to be removed when slapd is purged? ... No
Move old database? ... Yes
Allow LDAPv2 Protocol? ... No

Check that the ldap server is now running
```
ldapsearch -x -b dc=home,dc=local
```
If you get this error
```
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
```
Its likely the daemon isn't running so start it
```
/etc/init.d/slapd start
```

Populating the Database

We can use migration tools to export all of our users and groups into the LDAP db switch into the migrations tools directory

cd /usr/share/migrationtools/

Edit the migrations tools config file

nano migrate_common.ph

and replace the following

DEFAULT_MAIL_DOMAIN = "home.local";
DEFAULT_BASE = "dc=home,dc=local";

Export the users and groups

./migrate_group.pl /etc/group /tmp/group.ldif
./migrate_passwd.pl /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd.ldif

Migrate tools doesn't create the group and people nodes therefore we need to create them open /tmp/nodes.ldif

nano /tmp/nodes.ldif

and paste in the following

dn: ou=People, dc=home, dc=local
ou: People
objectclass: organizationalUnit

dn: ou=Group, dc=home, dc=local
ou: Group
objectclass: organizationalUnit

Finally we need to import the entries into our LDAP database

ldapadd -x -W -D "cn=admin,dc=home,dc=local" -f /tmp/nodes.ldif
ldapadd -x -W -D "cn=admin,dc=home,dc=local" -f /tmp/group.ldif
ldapadd -x -W -D "cn=admin,dc=home,dc=local" -f /tmp/passwd.ldif

That is your LDAP server setup In this tutorial it will show you how to configure your LDAP Clients