blog/data/2010-08-03-edu-roaming.txt

   1 Title: Debian Edu roaming workstation - at the university of Oslo
   2 Tags: english, nuug, debian edu
   3 Date: 2010-08-03 23:30
   4
   5 <p>The new roaming workstation profile in Debian Edu/Squeeze is fairly
   6 similar to the laptop setup am I working using Ubuntu for the
   7 University of Oslo, and just for the heck of it, I tested today how
   8 hard it would be to integrate that profile into the university
   9 infrastructure.  In this case, it is the university LDAP server,
  10 Active Directory Kerberos server and SMB mounting from the Netapp file
  11 servers.</p>
  12
  13 <p>I was pleasantly surprised that the only three files needed to be
  14 changed (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and
  15 /etc/mklocaluser.d/20-debian-edu-config) and one file had to be added
  16 (/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Edu_Local.pm), to get the client working.
  17 Most of the changes were to get the client to use the university LDAP
  18 and Kerberos server, but one was to change a hard coded DNS domain
  19 name in the mklocaluser hook.</p>
  20
  21 <p>This testing was so encouraging, that I went ahead and adjusted the
  22 Debian Edu scripts and setup in svn to centralise the roaming
  23 workstation setup a bit more and avoid the hardcoded DNS domain name,
  24 so that when I test this tomorrow, I expect to get away with modifying
  25 only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use a
  26 different set of servers.  The goal is to get the clients to have no
  27 hardcoded settings and fetch all their initial setup during
  28 installation and first boot, to allow them to be inserted also into
  29 environments where the default setup in Debian Edu has been changed or
  30 as with the university, where the environment is different but
  31 provides the protocols Debian Edu uses.</p>