preseed/kickstart, network authentication

[Matt Zimmerman]

There has been discussion about this situation for a couple of years now,
but as far as I'm aware, it isn't yet the target of active development.  You
can find other interested folks and some written material at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/network-authentication

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:13:58PM -0600, Alex Mauer wrote:
> This past weekend I was playing with Ubuntu's options for an automated
> network install (preseed and kickstart).  While the installation went
> very smoothly, I ran into a problem afterwards.  In a nutshell, the
> problem is the lack of support for automatically enabling network
> authentication such as kerberos and LDAP.
> 
> However, this problem is really not specific to automated network
> installs; it is also a problem for manual installs: setting up the
> client side of distributed authentication systems is a big pain in the
> butt.  This is compounded by the fact that support in packages for
> enabling and configuring PAM (and nsswitch) is pretty much non-existent.
>  Even hand-editing the pam configuration tends to produce a
> configuration that is rather brittle.
> 
> Is anybody out there working on this problem?  If so, is there anything
> I can do to help?  How do other distributions handle this?
> (redhat/fedora and OpenSUSE being the best in this respect as far as I
> am aware)
> 
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
> 
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