Hi Jason,
This is rather distressing news for me, and I don't really see the rationale
behind it.
Everything Linux is moving TOWARD using OpenLDAP for a central user
authentication scheme - it is the only viable solution for single-sign-on
authentication.
If I was capable of doing the programming myself, I would be happy to take
it over, but sadly, I am not.
I'm just curious - why move to some proprietary authentication format, when
OpenLDAP is already there?
I had a Linux guy in here a while back that had a look at ya'lls stuff and
said it would be fairly simple to convert it to work with OpenLDAP 2.0x, so
maybe I'll get him back in here and see what he'll charge me to make it
happen.
Depressed in Atlanta :(
Charles
p.s.
I'd be willing to donate $100 to a fund for whoever got this done - anyone
else?
-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:29:53 -0500
From: "Jason A. Pattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-E 1.4 and recent LTSP versions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are already at 1.4 full, you do not need to do anything with 1.4
core. That was just our way of separating the complete distribution for
those that wanted an install base without a previous LTSP installation
and those that did have an LTSP installation already.
Just to let you know, we are no longer working on the Enhancements in
their current form. We would like to move away from LDAP to use
possibly a database backend. The reason for this is that the latest
version(s) of LDAP have become increasingly difficult to configure, are
not compatible with the Enhancements (without rewriting a "proper"
object definition), and do not supply the relational attributes that we
would like to utilize that a database does provide (not to mention
simpler configuration).
If you or anyone else would be interested in taking over the LTSP
Enhancements in their current form, let me know.
--
Jason A. Pattie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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