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Ganymede 1.0.5 is now available for download at
http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/
or
ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/
Mirrors: (may take a short while to update)
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/ganymede/ (Planet Mirror, Australia)
ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/ganymede/ (KDD R&D Labs, Kamifukuoka, Saitama, Japan)
ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub4/ganymede/ (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/ganymede/ (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Ganymede is a GPL'ed metadirectory system. Ganymede provides support
for concurrent, team-based management of network directory services.
It features a multithreaded database server with support for plug-in
Java classes to customize the structure, management, and distribution
of network directory data. Ganymede allows large groups of
administrators to share administrative control over designated
portions of a master network directory database, and provides
transactional reliability and intelligent constraint management to
keep network directories consistent. Ganymede keeps complete audit
trails for all activity and can send email notification of relevant
directory changes to every member of your admin team, keeping
administrative teams coordinated and effective. Ganymede's
sophisticated graphical user interface is designed to provide a high
enough level of ease and safety of use to allow even relatively
untrained users to make changes to the directory database.
Ganymede has been designed and implemented over a five year period to
act as the glue that holds your admin teams and your directory
services together.
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Quite a few fixes for bugs, some minor and some major. The biggest
fix was for an over simplification of the Ganymede permission system
that made it impossible to express control over access to the standard
system fields (Owner List, Notes, Removal Date, Expiration Date) that
all objects have by definition. This posed a problem in that giving
users the ability to change their own password (through the Default
Role) by necessity also gave them the ability to edit these four
fields in undesirable ways. Ganymede now allows specification of
permissions for these four system fields explicitly when editing
permission matrices in the Role objects.
The minor fixes include support for running Ganymede with the Java 1.4
beta that Sun has released, better shutdown logic for the Ganymede
client, and better handling of build status network messages in the
client.
New features include some an added upgrade guide, and support for
using Sun's Java Web Start to launch the Ganymede clients from the
Windows desktop.
The following is an abbreviated list of changes in this release. See
http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/CHANGES for full details.
1. [DISTRIB] Fixed a number of bugs for JDK 1.4 compatibility
2. [DISTRIB] Added support for using Java Web Start to launch clients
3. [CLIENT] Fixed java.security.AccessControlException in client
4. [SERVER, CLIENT] Reworked permissions handling for built-in fields
5. [CLIENT] Improved GUI cleanup
6. [DISTRIB] Changed numbering scheme
7. [DOCUMENTATION] Added an upgrade guide, improved XML docs
8. [SERVER] Made the server use a default address for email if necessary
9. [SERVER] Fixed field/object permission interaction
A new version of the userKit, 1.0.4, was released as well, but the
changes to it are minor, having to do with setting up permissions for
end users properly with respect to the built-in fields. If you
already are running with the userKit in production, you should be able
to make the appropriate changes to the Default Role without
re-installing the userKit.
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Jonathan Abbey jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2
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