preseed/kickstart, network authentication

[Alex Mauer]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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

Yep, I read that (or rather
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkAuthentication ); it seems to be a good
description of what needs to be done.  However, the Feisty-specific part
seems to be based around "authtool" -- is this a new app written for
Ubuntu?  It doesn't seem to have made much progress since it was started
(at least, there's no release that I can see; or am I missing
something?)  Is there some reason that a new tool is being written from
scratch rather than porting RH's authconfig to Ubuntu?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"