Ubuntu Domain Server

[Christopher Chan]

Ryan Dwyer wrote:
> Bug #1: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 (currently giving me a timeout 
> error - it's called "Microsoft has a majority market share").

Sorry, that is not a bug. That is a dream that we want to make into reality.

>
> It doesn't matter how much work is involved. Do you think the 
> Linux/Ubuntu community would be willing to change the way system 
> logons work if it meant bug #1 could be completed?

Let us see. To change the way system logons work would mean changing 
pam, the C library and just about anything that has to do with system 
accounts. You are welcome to try to convince the Ubuntu community to 
maintain a fork of all these essential system libraries and offer some 
form of backwards compatibility to avoid having to also modify who knows 
how many other packages like sendmail, apache, bind, ..., ..., ..., 
everything. Mac OS X, a certified UNIX system as of Snow Leopard, is 
enjoying a measure of success without having to become Windows like. You 
are barking up the wrong tree here.

>
> -Ryan
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Christopher Chan 
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk 
> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
>
>     Ryan Dwyer wrote:
>
>         Do you think the Linux/Ubuntu community would be willing to
>         change the way system logons work if it meant bug #1 could be
>         completed?
>
>     Bug #1?
>
>
>     Oh, btw, about the part about changing the uid/gid system. ROTFL.
>     Do you have any idea how much work is involved in that?
>
>