From: Petter Reinholdtsen 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,
@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ changed (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and
/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.
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.
+only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use the +university servers. + +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.