WebYaST for Appliance Toolkit 1.1 Beta2 Release Notes

About WebYaST
=============

This is the first public release of WebYaST for Appliance Toolkit 1.1, combining
improved modules from the SP1 release with newly
developed functions.

WebYaST is a simple, easy to use, web-based administration tool
targeted at casual Linux administrators.

About this release
==================

WebYaST for Appliance Toolkit 1.1 is available as an repository during 
appliance build. 
Repository is in 
http://dist.suse.de/ibs/SUSE:/SLE-11-SP1:/GA:/Products:/Test/standard/  ( 
internal only )

The WebYaST team has also made available a vmware demo appliance:
http://www.suse.de/~jreidinger/webyast/SLES_11_SP1__webyast.i686-0.0.1.vmx.tar.gz
 (201MiB)  (public available) (due to bug in studio it doesn't contain vmx, but 
it is not mandatory)

This release includes the following modules
([*] == new module/function compared to SP1)

- Administrator
  root password, forward mails to an external account
  
- Eula
  display product EULA
  
- Mail
  configure outgoing mail server
  
- Patch and update
  show system patch status
  update system
  selective update

- Software repositories
  manage software repositories
  
- Registration
  register system against Novell Customer Center
  
- Users
  manage local users

- Services
  manage system services (/etc/init.d)
  manage custom service

- Firewall 
  simple firewall configuration

- Network
  simple network configuration
  DNS, Hostname
  Routing
  
- Status
  display system health status (cpu, network, disk)
  display system logs
  navigation option in logfile viewer

- Time and date
  configure time and date
  can set hardware clock format (UTC/localtime) 
  can set Ntp server

- Roles Management [*]
  allows create role, assign to the role permissions and assign role to user

- LDAP [*]
  configure LDAP and get users from it

- ActiveDirectory [*]
  configure users from activeDirectory

Known Bugs
==========

Please report bugs via
https://bugzilla.novell.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=WebYaST;format=guided

There are already a couple of bugs known for the release, the major 
ones are:

- After configuration samba users yastws service must be restarted to refresh 
user database (bnc#622897)
- missing module for kerberos configuration (common LDAP setup is to 
authentificate againts Kerberos)
- Roles assigned to ActiveDirectory users is not applied (bnc#624243)
- Cannot install patches

Happy testing!

        Your YaST teams,
-- 
Josef Reidinger
YaST team
maintainer of perl-Bootloader, YaST2-Repair, parts of webyast
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