mod_auth_ntlm_winbind now in Fedora

[simo]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 09:30 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > I shall maintain this package in Fedora.
> 
> We really need a release manager/maintainer for this.  Cutting
> RPMS out of an svn tree is probably not the best way to track
> stability :-)
> 
> Andrew, you had looked into this in the past.  Is anyone
> interested in taking it over?

I might volunteer.
But do we really need to keep it separated from the main samba tree?
What's the advantage?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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