In 2016, Nintendo quietly removed the Nintendogs + Cats games for the 3DS from the North American eShop without any warning. It left users in this region with no other choice but to seek out a physical copy if they wanted to spend some quality time with these adorable pets.

Now, out of nowhere, all three games are back up on the eShop in this region. You can purchase each one for $19.99 directly from the eShop or the Nintendo website. If you want to make a saving, you can get French Bulldog and New Friends for 40% off (bringing it down to $11.99), if you buy a coupon on the My Nintendo website for 400 Platinum Points. The dogs and cats are the same across each version, but each one starts off with a different selection of dog breeds.

Nintendogs + Cats was previously available on the US eShop for $15.00, until the price was raised to $20.00 for the physical Nintendo Selects release.

Are you surprised this game has taken so long to return to the eShop in this region? Would you like to see Nintendo release a new entry in this series? Tell us below.

The next project to land on Nintendo Switch from Digital Eclipse is none other than a collection of six Neo Geo titles from the Samurai Shodown franchise. In the Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection you will be able to pick six games from the mainline slash’em up series:

This is obviously a very convenient way to catch up with the series in time for the latest series reboot. As expected from a Digital Eclipse release, you’ll be able to fight your frenemies locally or take the fight online against the rest of the world. A museum feature has also been included and considering the fabulous artwork from the series, it is most certainly welcomed. Some other features have been teased, so expect more announcements in the near future.

While we are looking forward to this excellent compilation, it is not without a bit of sorrow we see other titles in the series continuing to be neglected such as Atomiswave’s ‘everyone is here‘ Samurai Shodown VI or Neo Geo CD’s unique RPG spin-off Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidō Retsuden.

The compilation is expected to unsheathe swords and send in Poppy during Fall 2019, but with no price point announced as of this time. Impatient warriors can instead opt out to clash immediately by heading to the eShop and picking up games one to five from Hamster’s Arcade Archives label.

Are you a fan of SNK’s all conquering 2D weapons fighter? Are you looking forward to grabbing this one or will you stick to the local versus Arcade Archives version? Sharpen your blades as well as your tongues in the comments section below.

Well done, folks! We’ve made it to the end of yet another week. This week brought us a bonkers bug situation in Final Fantasy VII and even more rumours of new Switch models coming this year, so it’s probably about time we unwind by discussing our weekend gaming plans. Team Nintendo Life has just done that below, and we invite you to join us in the comments and poll. Enjoy!

Dom Reseigh-Lincoln, reviewer

This weekend I’ll be returning to an old favourite of mine, the Darksiders series, as it finally makes the leap to Nintendo Switch. I’ve completed it twice already on PS3 and PS4, so I’m in a good position to judge just how well this comic book-style action adventure stacks up on new hardware. Let’s hope it’s good enough to get Darksiders II and maybe even Darksiders III if we’re lucky/it’s even possible. Have a good ‘un!

Ryan Craddock, staff writer

This weekend is all about the adorable, wonderful, bundle of joy that is Yoshi. Yes, Yoshi’s Crafted World has arrived and it’ll likely take up most of my evenings for the foreseeable future.

Their relatively gentle nature make Yoshi games perfect opportunities for me and my partner to sit down and play together. She’s not the biggest gamer, but the cute, cuddly aesthetic of Yoshi’s Woolly World on Wii U was enough to get her interested and we had a great time exploring everything there was to see together. Crafted World was the first time she asked me to buy a video game rather than the other way around, so I wasn’t going to say no!

Austin Voigt, contributing writer

Honestly, I’ll probably just be playing Yoshi’s Crafted World this weekend. There’s something so satisfying about the realistic look of crafting materials inside of a game. Would I ever play a game with these items in real life? Nope. Would I play with fake versions on a screen? Apparently so! It’s adorable, the demo won me over, I’m burned out on my backlog and itching for something new to try… Well done, Nintendo – you dropped this game right about when you knew everyone would be getting bored. Cheers!

Gavin Lane, staff writer

This weekend I shall be diving back into Wolfenstein II. I bought it ages ago on sale but got sidetracked by other games after the first few levels. I’m probably a third of the way through and I fired it up again on a whim this week and was amazed at how good it looks! Sure, it doesn’t hold a candle to the versions on other platforms, but on its own terms I think it looks fantastic – better than I remembered. Maybe it’s been patched up the wazoo, or maybe I just have a horrible memory, but I’m looking forward to battling a whole bunch of nazis this weekend.

Gonçalo Lopes, contributing writer

OBJECTION! It’s 2019 and I have never played or owned any previous entry of the famous Capcom lawyer’em up, but that changes this weekend with the glorious Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy having arrived from the Far East. But law is out the window in this weekend’s ARMS Party Crash Bash: if Ninjara is eliminated, me and the entire Ninjara nation will riot on the streets. A quiet, silent riot because hey… we are really good ninjas. Cute platforming shenanigans are also on the way with Yoshi’s Crafted World and Unravel Two going back and forth in the Switch cartridge slot.

My game of the week goes out to the lovely Ultrawings. I truly hope there is an update in the near future to make it support Labo VR. It is also a stark reminder we deserve a new Pilotwings.

As always, thanks for reading! Make sure to leave a vote in the poll above and a comment below with your gaming choices over the next few days…

During today’s Sega FES stage show, six more titles for the Sega AGES line were revealed.

These upcoming Switch eShop releases include Shinobi, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Fantasy Zone, Puzzle & Action: Inchidant-R, Herzog Zwei and G-LOC Air Battle.

Shinobi

This single-player action side-scroller is based on the original arcade release dating back to 1987.

Wonder Boy in Monster Land

This action game for one player includes the Japanese and western version of the game as well as online rankings. The arcade release dates back to 1987.

Fantasy Zone

Fantasy Zone’s Sega Ages debut is based on the 3DS (arcade) release and is designed for 1-2 players. The coin stock system makes the game easier to play and adds in the original Sega Mark III boss. The original arcade game came out in 1986.

Puzzle & Action: Inchidant-R

Inchidant-R is based on the arcade and overseas version and is a sequel to Puzzle & Action: Tant-R. It comes packed with 16 mini-games, supports two players and was originally released in 1984.

Herzog Zwei

Originally developed by Technosoft – the talent behind the Thunderforce series – this single-player real-time strategy game will receive online support in the Switch release. The original game launched on the Mega Drive in 1989.

G-LOC Air Battle

G-LOC Air Battle is a single-player 3D shooter and is a port of the 1990 arcade release.

More information regarding release dates and localisation will be revealed in the near future.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started.

There are two upcoming test days this week. The first, on Tuesday March 12, is to test the Kernel 5.0. Wednesday March 13, the test day is focusing on Fedora IoT Edition. Come and test with us to make the upcoming Fedora 30 even better.

Kernel test day

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.0. This version was just recently released and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version will also be the shipping kernel for Fedora 30. As a
result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test day for
Tuesday, March 12. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate.

Fedora IoT Edition test day

Fedora Internet of Things is a variant of Fedora focused on IoT ecosystems. Whether you’re working on a home assistant, industrial gateways, or data storage and analytics, Fedora IoT provides a trusted open source platform to build on. Fedora IoT produces a monthly rolling release to help you keep your ecosystem up-to-date. The IoT and QA teams will have this test day for on Wednesday, March 13. Refer to the wiki page for links and resources to test the IoT Edition.

How do test days work?

A test day is an event where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.

To contribute, you only need to be able to download test materials (which include some large files) and then read and follow directions step by step.

Detailed information about both test days are on the wiki pages above. If you’re available on or around the days of the events, please do some testing and report your results.

Welcome back to this three-party journey to getting OpenLDAP up and running so that you can authenticate your Linux desktop machines to the LDAP server. In part one, we installed OpenLDAP on Ubuntu Server 18.04 and added our first LDAP entries to the directory tree via the Command Line Interface (CLI).

The process of manually adding data can be cumbersome and isn’t for everyone. If you have staff members that work better with a handy GUI tool, you’re in luck, as there is a very solid web-based tool that makes entering new users a snap. That tool is the LDAP Account Manager (LAM).

LAM features:

• Support for 2-factor authentication

• Schema and LDAP browser

• Support for multiple LDAP servers

• Support for account creation profiles

• File system quotas

• CSV file upload

• Automatic creation/deletion of home directories

• PDF output for all accounts

• And much more

We’ll be installing LAM on the same server we installed OpenLDAP, so make sure you’ve walked through the process from the previous article. With that taken care of, let’s get LAM up and running, so you can more easily add users to your LDAP directory tree.

Installation

Fortunately, LAM is found in the standard Ubuntu repository, so installation is as simple as opening a terminal window and issuing the command:

sudo apt-get install ldap-account-manager -y

When the installation finishes, you can then limit connections to LAM to local IP addresses only (if needed), by opening a specific .conf file with the command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/ldap-account-manager.conf

In that file, look for the line:

Require all granted

Comment that line out (add a # character at the beginning of the line) and add the following entry below it:

Require ip 192.168.1.0/24

Make sure to substitute your network IP address scheme in place of the one above (should yours differ). Save and close that file, and restart the Apache web server with the command:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

You are now ready to access the LAM web interface.

Opening LAM

Point your web browser to http://SERVER_IP/lam (where SERVER_IP is the IP address of the server hosting LAM). In the resulting screen (Figure 1), click LAM configuration in the upper right corner of the window.

In the resulting window, click Edit server profiles (Figure 2).

You will be prompted for the default profile password, so type lam and click OK. You will then be presented with the Server settings page (Figure 3).

In the Server Settings section, enter the IP address of your LDAP server. Since we’re installing LAM on the same server as OpenLDAP, we’ll leave the default. If your OpenLDAP and LAM servers are not on the same machine, make sure to enter the correct IP address for the OpenLDAP server here. In the Tree suffix entry, add the domain components of your OpenLDAP server in the form dc=example,dc=com.

Next, take care of the following configurations:

In the Security settings section (Figure 4), configure the list of valid users in the form cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com (make sure to use your LDAP admin user and domain components).

In the Account Types tab (Figure 5), configure the Active account types LDAP options. First, configure the LDAP suffix, which will be in the form ou=group,dc=example,dc=com. This is the suffix of the LDAP tree from where you will search for entries. Only entries in this subtree will be displayed in the account list. In other words, use the group attribute if you have created a group on your OpenLDAP server that all of your users (who will be authenticating against the LDAP directory tree) will be a member of. For example, if all of your users who will be allowed to log in on desktops machines are part of the group login, use that.

Next, configure the List attributes. These are the attributes that will be displayed in the account list, and are predefined values, such as #uid, #givenName, #sn, #uidNumber, etc. Fill out both the LDAP suffix and List attributes for both Users and groups.

After configuring both users and groups, click Save. This will also log you out of the Server profile manager and take you back to the login screen. You can now log into LAM using your LDAP server admin credentials. Select the user from the User name drop-down, type your LDAP admin password, and click Login. This will take you to the LAM Users tab (Figure 6), where you can start adding new users to the LDAP directory tree.

Click New User and the New User window will open (Figure 7), where you can fill in the necessary blanks.

Make sure to click Set password, so you can create a password for the new user (otherwise the user won’t be able to log into their account). Also make sure to click on the Unix tab, where you can set the username, home directory, primary group, login shell, and more. Once you’ve entered the necessary information for the user, click Save and the user account can then be found in the LDAP directory tree.

Welcome to Simpler User Creation

The LDAP Account Manager makes working with OpenLDAP exponentially easier. Without using this tool, you’ll spend more time entering users to the LDAP tree than you probably would like. The last thing you need is to take more time than necessary out of your busy admin day to create and manage users in your LDAP tree via command line.

In the next (and final entry) in this three-part series, I will walk you through the process of configuring a Linux desktop machine, such that it can authenticate against the OpenLDAP server.