mod_auth_ntlm_winbind now in Fedora

[Dmitry Butskoy]

I'm glad to inform you that now "mod_auth_ntlm_winbind" is included into 
Fedora
(formely known as RedHat Linux, see http://www.fedoraproject.org)

It is an Apache module, and allows to authenticate users using winbind 
daemon. This way both NTLM and Negotiate auth types can be performed 
against a Windows domain. Proxy authentication is supported as well.

The source of this package still is present in Samba's CVS only (no any 
upstream site for now), but the code itself is stable and has enough 
history of usage. (For the source, see 
http://viewcvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind/?root=lorikeet 
)

I shall maintain this package in Fedora.

You can already check binary rpm packages in "updates-testing" repository:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/i386/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.5.20070129svn713.fc7.i386.rpm
as well as the source rpm:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/SRPMS/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.5.20070129svn713.fc7.src.rpm
and builds for another arches (x86_64, ppc, ppc64):
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/x86_64/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.5.20070129svn713.fc7.x86_64.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/x86_64/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.5.20070129svn713.fc7.ppc.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/x86_64/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind-0.0.0-0.5.20070129svn713.fc7.ppc64.rpm

Soon it should appear for general usage in Fedora "updates" repository.

Notes:
- some cosmetic (?) patch was needed for 64bit arches.
- it seems that it is a time to provide "normal" upstream tarball 
somewhere (what about ftp.samba.org/pub/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind -- the 
same way as for rsync and rzip ?..)


Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy