Christian Kuelker (fast-paced world of century 21)

CipUX 3.2.9 “Bielefeld” is out

June 10, 2006 on 8:01 pm | In CipUX, GNU/Linux |

The new CipUX version 3.2.9 is out. It called “Bielefeld” because the most work was done in the University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology (due to the help of Robert Glowienka) and the new features in 3.2.9 were needed there. The new version is ready for installation from http://debian.cipworx.org. The installation guide is located at (English) http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/CipUX/Installation/3.2.9 (German, thanks to Jula Wierich) http://wiki.skolelinux.de/CipUX/Installation/3.2.9 The update manual from 3.2.8 to 3.2.9 still have to be written.

3.2.9 is a major improvement to 3.2.8. Not only bug fixes, also security enhancements should be considered so that installation or upgrade to 3.2.9 is strongly recomended.

Some major features:

* A new package for fat clients image deploy
- clientadmin (add computer clients)
- harwareadmin (define harware standards)
- softwareadmin (define software groups)
- roomadmin (deploy images to networks)

* Several new CAT modules:
- Roleadmin (changeing the role of users)
- Printaccountmanager (store money values in LDAP)
- Application-Form
- Apply Application-Form
- Transferadmin (transfer of pupil at the end of term)

* Setup for:
- school name
- class structure
- deploy system

* rewritten Task API
- over 60 shell commands
- better usage messages

Points from the changelog:

* add new courses cipuxRole to internetadmin
* computer clients may now be registerd with CAT clientadmin.cgi
* new CipUX LDAP object for rooms
* add task cipux_task_list_rooms
* add task cipux_task_delete_room
* add task cipux_task_create_room
* gne goup machines as meta object with id 900 to cipux_setup_ldap_objects
* add task cipux_task_list_machines
* add task cipux_task_create_machine
* add task cipux_task_delete_machine
* add task cipux_task_list_hardware_types
* add task cipux_task_create_hardware_type
* add task cipux_task_delete_hardware_type
* add task cipux_task_list_image_slots
* add task cipux_task_create_image_slot
* add task cipux_task_delete_image_slot
* add task cipux_task_list_images
* add task cipux_task_create_image
* add task cipux_task_delete_image
* new ou=Rooms to ou=CipUX
* new ou=Hardware_Types to ou=CipUX
* new ou=Images to ou=CipUX
* new ou=Image_Slots to ou=CipUX
* image-software-group data may now be uptdated with imageadmin.cgi
* with hardwareadmin.cgi one may change the names of hardware standards
* the boot logic may be conntroled by the clientadmin.cgi
* add cipux-deploy package with tftpd-hpa recommendation
* add rommadmin.cgi, deploys software groups to rooms
* roomadmin now creates rooms with cipadmin
* new CAT module applicationform.cgi
* new CAT module apply_applicationform.cgi
* new task create_applicant
* add applicationform.cgi
* new task cipux_task_create_applicant
* new task cipux_task_print_apply_for_admission
* new task cipux_task_disable_user_posix_account
* new task cipux_task_disable_user_samba_account
* new task cipux_task_disable_course_posix_account
* new task cipux_task_disable_course_samba_account
* new task cipux_task_enable_user_posix_account
* new task cipux_task_enable_user_samba_account
* new task cipux_task_enable_course_posix_account
* new task cipux_task_enable_course_samba_account
* add apply_applicationform.cgi
* add usaerdata.cgi
* add roleadmin.cgi (Patrick Winnertz)
* add printaccountmanager.cgi (Patrick Winnertz)
* machine accounts do now have a leading $ sign
* change looging, not to log password hashes
* add new feature to cipux_set_value: read from STDIN
* cipux_task_create_machine has now only one mandatory parameter
* cipux_add as now -W for intercative password prompt or STDIN
* add -y flag to ldapsearch, ladpmodify, …
* new test in cipux_maint_diagnostic for new ldappassword.conf
* better usage message for cipux_task_* commands

The next release will be 3.2.10 “Jarandilla de La Vera”