NFSv4, Kerberos and Authentication Directory

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 11 16:39:22 CST 2005


On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:03:48AM +0100, Ghe Rivero wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 	first of all, congratulations. I just install hoary and everything goes
> smooth (just a small issue with my wlan but that is another mail).

What was the issue with wlan?  I didn't see another mail from you; is it
something that can be fixed for the final release?

> 	I'm really interested in NFSv4 and kerberos stuff. At my university we
> have around 250 lab computers with debian sarge that will be updated to
> hoary in the following weeks. The only thing that i'm missing is support
> for NFSv4. I don't know if someone is taking care of it, but if not i
> will love to help with it.
> 	Related to NFSv4, we  have all the kerberos packages, servers... I have
> some deployments on enterprises were the people is working without
> problem, and i would like to include all this on ubuntu and make it work
> "out of the box", some kind of authentication directory ( i can extend
> this idea further is anyone wants it) Again, is anyone interested,
> working on it, or should i take the first step?¿

I am not aware of anyone working on this type of functionality, so feel free
to dive in.  Bear in mind that we are in the final stages of the Hoary
release, and not adding new features, but you can begin work now for a
feature to be included in the next release.

-- 
 - mdz



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