Title: One step closer to single signon in Debian Edu
-Tags: english, nuug, debian edu
+Tags: english, nuug, debian edu, sikkerhet
Date: 2010-07-25 10:00
-<p>The last few months I have been working hard to get the
-Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian Edu/Skolelinux into shape.
-This future version will use Kerberos for authentication, and services
-are slowly migrated to single sign, getting rid of password questions
-one at the time.</p>
+<p>The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have
+been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux into shape. This future version will use Kerberos for
+authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon,
+getting rid of password questions one at the time.</p>
<p>It will also feature a roaming workstation profile with local home
directory, for laptops that are only some times on the Skolelinux
to gain access to the users home directory on the file server. This
shortcut uses SMB at the moment, and yesterday I had time to test if
SMB mounting had started working in KDE after we added the cifs-utils
-package. I was surprised how well it worked.</p>
+package. I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.</p>
<p>Thanks to the recent changes to our samba configuration to get it
to use Kerberos for authentication, there were no question about user
Debian Edu. We already had PAM, LDAP, IMAP and SMTP in place, and now
also Samba. Next step is Cups and hopefully also NFS.</p>
-<p>We had plannet a alpha0 release of Debian Edu for today, but thanks
-to the autobuilder admins for some architectures being slow to sign
-packages, we are still missing the fixed LTSP package we need for the
-release. It was uploaded three days ago with urgency=high, and if it
-had entered testing yesterday we would have been able to test it in
+<p>We had planned a alpha0 release of Debian Edu for today, but thanks
+to the autobuilder administrators for some architectures being slow to
+sign packages, we are still missing the fixed LTSP package we need for
+the release. It was uploaded three days ago with urgency=high, and if
+it had entered testing yesterday we would have been able to test it in
time for a alpha0 release today. As the binaries for ia64 and powerpc
still not uploaded to the Debian archive, we need to delay the alpha
release another day.</p>