Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

API calls are working. Just the Web logins that are failing.

Any help much appreciated

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin

This has been such a game-changer for me.

Our new custom-developed back-end hooks into all our resources and provides a holistic view of our infrastructure in a single pane of glass. We can dig into each service and application for troubleshooting and analysis, but the biggest feature is that it pushes a notification when new updates are available.

This way, I'm not logging into each asset individually; I just say "yup, looks good, update," and it does it.

Years saved off my life.

I'll share more about this tool during our upcoming Spring State of the Instance, of which the date will be announced this upcoming week.

And yes, I will be offering the repo for others to fork and use when I'm comfortable doing so. It's very custom-tailored to our infrastructure, but I'm sure many aspects can be reused.

#MastoAdmin #mstdnca

Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

API calls are working. Just the Web logins that are failing.

Any help much appreciated

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin

This has been such a game-changer for me.

Our new custom-developed back-end hooks into all our resources and provides a holistic view of our infrastructure in a single pane of glass. We can dig into each service and application for troubleshooting and analysis, but the biggest feature is that it pushes a notification when new updates are available.

This way, I'm not logging into each asset individually; I just say "yup, looks good, update," and it does it.

Years saved off my life.

I'll share more about this tool during our upcoming Spring State of the Instance, of which the date will be announced this upcoming week.

And yes, I will be offering the repo for others to fork and use when I'm comfortable doing so. It's very custom-tailored to our infrastructure, but I'm sure many aspects can be reused.

#MastoAdmin #mstdnca

Here's a guide for Mastodon admins on how to adjust who can sign up on your server:

🌱 https://fedi.tips/controlling-sign-ups-on-your-mastodon-server

It's not just the registration settings, there are also invitation settings to adjust, and these can be combined to give a range of different sign-up policies.

The guide is new, hopefully it's okay. Any feedback/corrections welcome.

#MastoAdmin

@hardillb It's happening here too. Started about a week ago.

#MastoAdmin #meta

Ok, this is the first time I’ve received a request to create an account from an AI agent. Are other admins also starting to receive these kinds of requests?

I think I’m going to block all email addresses from agentwire.email

#MastoAdmin #AIagent #NoAI