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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Autodetecting Client setup for roaming workstations in Debian Edu</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 7th August 2010</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, I
  26 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html">tried
  27 to install</a> a Roaming workation profile from Debian Edu/Squeeze
  28 while on the university network here at the University of Oslo, and
  29 noticed how much had to change to get it operational using the
  30 university infrastructure.  It was fairly easy, but it occured to me
  31 that Debian Edu would improve a lot if I could get the client to
  32 connect without any changes at all, and thus let the client configure
  33 itself during installation and first boot to use the infrastructure
  34 around it.  Now I am a huge step further along that road.</p>
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  36 <p>With our current squeeze-test packages, I can select the roaming
  37 workstation profile and get a working laptop connecting to the
  38 university LDAP server for user and group and our active directory
  39 servers for Kerberos authentication.  All this without any
  40 configuration at all during installation.  My users home directory got
  41 a bookmark in the KDE menu to mount it via SMB, with the correct URL.
  42 In short, openldap and sssd is correctly configured.  In addition to
  43 this, the client look for http://wpad/wpad.dat to configure a web
  44 proxy, and when it fail to find it no proxy settings are stored in
  45 /etc/environment and /etc/apt/apt.conf.  Iceweasel and KDE is
  46 configured to look for the same wpad configuration and also do not use
  47 a proxy when at the university network.  If the machine is moved to a
  48 network with such wpad setup, it would automatically use it when DHCP
  49 gave it a IP address.</p>
  50
  51 <p>The LDAP server is located using DNS, by first looking for the DNS
  52 entry ldap.$domain.  If this do not exist, it look for the
  53 _ldap._tcp.$domain SRV records and use the first one as the LDAP
  54 server.  Next, it connects to the LDAP server and search all
  55 namingContexts entries for posixAccount or posixGroup objects, and
  56 pick the first one as the LDAP base.  For Kerberos, a similar
  57 algorithm is used to locate the LDAP server, and the realm is the
  58 uppercase version of $domain.</p>
  59
  60 <p>So, what is not working, you might ask.  SMB mounting my home
  61 directory do not work.  No idea why, but suspected the incorrect
  62 Kerberos settings in /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf might be
  63 the cause.  These are not properly configured during installation, and
  64 had to be hand-edited to get the correct Kerberos realm and server,
  65 but SMB mounting still do not work. :(</p>
  66
  67 <p>With this automatic configuration in place, I expect a Debian Edu
  68 roaming profile installation would be able to automatically detect and
  69 connect to any site using LDAP and Kerberos for NSS directory and PAM
  70 authentication.  It should also work out of the box in a Active
  71 Directory environment providing posixAccount and posixGroup objects
  72 with UID and GID values.</p>
  73
  74 <p>If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
  75 Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
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  78       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.</div>
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