Charles,
The announcement that Jason made a few days ago was strictly about
his 'Enhancements' package.
It does NOT indicate the direction of the LTSP project in general.
We are still planning on having LDAP based authentication. In fact,
Andrew Williams was working on that last week.
We are currently focusing all of our efforts on finishing the current
version of LTSP, which will be a great foundation for lots of excellent
enhancements, including LDAP.
So, sit back and relax.
If you've got some spare time, please download the latest LTSP development
release and install it on a test server. We need feedback from everyone, to
make sure that LTSP is as good as it can be.
Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Marcus wrote:
>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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