Date: 2010-08-03 23:30
<p>The new roaming workstation profile in Debian Edu/Squeeze is fairly
-similar to the laptop setup am I working using Ubuntu for the
+similar to the laptop setup am I working on using Ubuntu for the
University of Oslo, and just for the heck of it, I tested today how
hard it would be to integrate that profile into the university
infrastructure. In this case, it is the university LDAP server,
/etc/mklocaluser.d/20-debian-edu-config) and one file had to be added
(/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Edu_Local.pm), to get the client working.
Most of the changes were to get the client to use the university LDAP
-and Kerberos server, but one was to change a hard coded DNS domain
-name in the mklocaluser hook.</p>
+for NSS and Kerberos server for PAM, but one was to change a hard
+coded DNS domain name in the mklocaluser hook from .intern to
+.uio.no.</p>
<p>This testing was so encouraging, that I went ahead and adjusted the
-Debian Edu scripts and setup in svn to centralise the roaming
+Debian Edu scripts and setup in subversion to centralise the roaming
workstation setup a bit more and avoid the hardcoded DNS domain name,
so that when I test this tomorrow, I expect to get away with modifying
-only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use a
-different set of servers. The goal is to get the clients to have no
-hardcoded settings and fetch all their initial setup during
-installation and first boot, to allow them to be inserted also into
-environments where the default setup in Debian Edu has been changed or
-as with the university, where the environment is different but
-provides the protocols Debian Edu uses.</p>
+only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use the
+university servers.</p>
+
+<p>My goal is to get the clients to have no hardcoded settings and
+fetch all their initial setup during installation and first boot, to
+allow them to be inserted also into environments where the default
+setup in Debian Edu has been changed or as with the university, where
+the environment is different but provides the protocols Debian Edu
+uses.</p>