preseed/kickstart, network authentication

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:30:13PM -0600, Alex Mauer wrote:
> 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?

I don't have answers to your specific questions about the approach; you
should contact the people who are working on that project (they are listed
in Launchpad).

-- 
 - mdz