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[Ballock Tokarski <boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'd like to use the thread at the ubuntu-devel-discuss as the single point
of feedback, so @David, could you please send your feedback to that list
too?

For the wiki, I think it should work, there's no special permissions
required. I had none, so I think none is required aside for the Launchpad
account.

Cheers,
Ballock


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:23 PM, David Burke <dmbst32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm interested in this. Sorry I didn't attend the last UDS. I can't seem
> to log into the wiki. Do I need permission for such?
>
> I agree coming up with a preferred solution would be wonderful. The
> choices can be overwhelming. Some thoughts:
>
>    -
>
>    pam-ccreds/nss-updatedb - I find this introduced considerable lag into a system with < 500 users.
>
>    - SSSD - I've run into trouble from what I suspect is not having the
>    unix attributes in Active Directory. If I cared enough I could change this.
>    All new versions of Windows Server support this right? Looks like SSSD
>    wants to eventually support this.
>    - Samba - Samba3 client works fine for me so far in a trial group. I
>    want to try out Samba4 this summer both client and server. Of note a LOT of
>    people have AD and with samba4 one doesn't need Microsoft's implementation.
>
> Something to watch is Zentyal. Their next version<http://www.zentyal.org/archives/2012/11/06/1117-tentative-zentyal-3-2-roadmap-published/>is supposed to have desktop client support.
> Edubuntu also has plans <http://edubuntu.org/2012-10-27/edubuntu-at-uds-r>for this.
>
> Needs I have and feel strongly about:
>
>    - Folder redirection and friendlier mounts. As discussed<https://lists.launchpad.net/enterprise-ubuntu/msg00077.html>.
>    Doesn't seem to be any solution.
>    - First log in issues. Described in my blog<http://davidmburke.com/2012/04/26/ubuntu-12-04-deployment-with-active-directory/>.
>    In short first log in in Ubuntu can fail if networking is not up. My work
>    around (pingtest) is not ideal because if credentials are cached it's
>    wasting time. It should be handled by pam. I think the ideal logic should
>    be:
>    Attempt log in (local, cached credentials, etc)
>    If failed AND some network auth is present AND networking is not
>    settled:
>       display a friendly message with cancel button "Waiting for network
>    connection"
>       wait until networking succeeds or fails in connecting
>
> Best,
> David
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Bolesław Tokarski <
> boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to execute some of the points we started at the last physical
>> UDS (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Enterprise/Needs<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise/Needs>)
>> and took up the topic of authentication.
>>
>> I did some analysis of the open-source options there are and summarized
>> it in an email to the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list (
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/**archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/**
>> 2013-May/014518.html<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2013-May/014518.html>
>> )
>>
>> Is there anyone interested in discussing the topic? I hope to get a vUDS
>> session about this next UDS, in the meantime we can get some consensus. I
>> would like to find the people that should attend such a discussion due to
>> their involvement in this area. I believe we have such people on this list
>> already, but feel free to involve anyone who you believe should be part of
>> such discussion.
>>
>> In the meantime I'd like to create some action points in our
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Enterprise <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise>wiki. I entered "Current activities" that includes a reformat of the
>> aforementioned email.
>>
>> Please review it and give feedback. There has not been much response on
>> that ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list, perhaps we should fix the
>> authentication issues ourselves.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ballock
>>
>>
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