Directory Service for Ubuntu

[Jerry Haltom]

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DomainAuthenticationUtility/

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:51 -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Manuel Zach wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > in the last time I was thinking a lot about directory services and
> > this takes me on an idea.
> [...] 
> > I think we should start a project with the target to get an 100% free,
> > open, stable, secure, ...
> > directory service which is comparable with eDirectory or AD.
> [...] 
> > I think it would be great, if we have a good administration tool to
> > set up and maintain the server and to have  a good client support.
> 
> Hi, Manuel. I want to mention a program I have been working on: EDS
> Admin (http://edsadmin.sourceforge.net). It is a gtk + python app for
> managing LDAP user directories. Unlike other LDAP programs, it doesn't
> try to be a swiss army knife; it tries to manage users and groups well.
> 
> The current version auto-detects LDAP servers using either DNS SRV
> records or rendezvous. As soon as I can get some strange bugs squashed
> in the openldap/kerberos/sasl combo, it will also support auto-login to
> the directory server for the domain(realm). It also supports samba
> accounts and groups, and I plan to support Lorikeet (Samba + Heimdal +
> LDAP SSO solution) as soon as possible.
> 
> I have done a RFS on debian-mentors for it, if anyone likes it and could
> help me get it in that would be nifty :-)
> 
> With Ubuntu's (and UserLinux's and one day Debian's) goal of few debconf
> questions, I had planned to add a "Realm Prep Assistant" to edsadmin.
> Ghe Rivero and others have some work towards that sort of a tool (which I
> plan to steal :-) at kis.alioth.debian.org. Does that fit with what you 
> had in mind? 
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>