Announcing the ubuntu-directory team

[Edward Murrell]

This is awesome. :) I'll be watching this one closely, since I've been
waiting for last two or three years for something like this to come out.
Hopefully I can convince my boss to let me replace my existing
cobbled-together set up with this once it reaches some maturity.

A huge amount of the work on getting this to work properly is in the
annoying little details (as an example, allowing any user that logs in
on the local gdm console to user audio/video/USB).

I'll be glad to help where I can. :)

Corey Burger wrote:
> Do you pine for a good old days of Active Directory? Does WSUS make
> your heart throb? Miss these things on Ubuntu? We do and so we have
> decided to do something about it. Thus I would like announce the
> creation of the ubuntu-directory team.
>
> What is our mission, you ask?
> We aim to make Ubuntu rock, both as a client of directory services and
> as a server of the same.
>
> Who are we?
> A group of people with extensive experience with AD and other similar
> technologies, including Jerry Haltom, Andrew Forgue, Jorge Castro and
> myself.Things like DFS, deploying printers, domain controller
> replication, DNS, joining clients to a domain, Windows Server Update
> Services, Group Policy Objects, and scripting Windows.
>
> So what are you working on?
> Lots of things. Here is the quick skinny:
>
> Easy connection of clients to an LDAP server (including AD)
> https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/network-authentication
> (still under heavy review and rewriting)
>
> An easy LDAP server
> https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-update-server
>
> An update server
> https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-update-server
>
> Is that all your are working on?
> Far from it. Here are some more:
> https://features.launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-directory/+specs
>
> Where do we find you?
> On Launchpad, of course:
> https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-directory
>
> On freenode:
> #ubuntu-directory
>
> On our mailing lists
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-directory
>
> What can I do to help?
> We need help polishing up our specs.  We need code monkeys. Lots of
> them. Those that speak C and Python are most appreciated.
>
> Lets make feisty rock in the enterprise space!
>
> Corey
>
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