From:	 Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>
To:	 ganymede-announce@arlut.utexas.edu
Subject: [Ganymede Announce] Ganymede 1.0 Released
Date:	 Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:12:35 -0500 (CDT)

Ganymede 1.0 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://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ganymede/ (Australia/NZ only)
 ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/ganymede/ (KDD R&D Labs, Saitama, Japan)
 ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub4/ganymede/ (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

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 your directory databases.

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After five and a half years of design and devlopment effort, I am very
proud to present Ganymede version 1.0.  After 20 months of production
usage and ongoing refinement at ARL:UT with a group of more than 50
administrators and over 850 users, I consider Ganymede to be just
about as ready for the world as we can make it.

The core of Ganymede 1.0 does not differ dramatically from the 1.0p1
pre-release that we put out in January in terms of functionality, but
a lot of bug fixes have been incorporated, and a lot of polish has
been put on everything.  The server's memory usage has been
stabilized, the GUI has been cleaned up some, and the documentation
has been improved.

Concurrently with the 1.0 release of the Ganymede suite, we are
releasing version 1.0 of the Ganymede userKit, which provides the
database schema and logic for managing user and group accounts across
UNIX, Windows NT, and Samba.  The userKit has seen a great deal of
polish since the 1.0p1 pre-release, and should be easy to install and
easy to use for handling password synchronization in a cross-platform
manner.

The userKit now has built-in support for generation of the Samba
password file with NT-compatible encrypted passwords for both Samba
version 1 and Samba version 2, in addition to user and group account
synchronization with a Windows NT 4.0 Primary Domain Controller.  The
userKit also includes support for using Clyde Hoover's npasswd
password quality suite to provide support for detailed examination of
password choices.

Ganymede, of course, is designed to be customizable to fit any sort of
directory management requirements, with support for data loading and
management through an XML interface.  The 1.0 userKit provides a
robust and well designed template that you can use to design your
own network management plug-ins for the Ganymede system.

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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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