Directory Service for Ubuntu

[Manuel Zach]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:50:17 -0500, Mark Roach <mrroach at okmaybe.com> wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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
Thanks for the great infos, mark.
Edsadmin seems to be very cool, I hope I can test it soon.

KIS is exactly a project that I have searched.
Is KIS planed to be distro independent, or only for Userlinux?

Is the main mailinglist for KIS auth-system at list.userlinux.com?
I think, a wiki would be very important for KIS. I know it is an entry
in the wiki from userlinux, but it is readonly at the moment (Or I am
too silly to login).

cheers,
Manuel