I haven’t done any development of LAT in a while. The tool does all the stuff I need it for and I’m happy with it as is. These days I’m mostly writing applications for the iPhone.
It was looking like the project would just die and fade away but, Jeroen Asselman has stepped up and taken over development. He’s moved the source code over to SourceForge.
I’m sure Jeroen will do a good job of taking LAT forward.
I’m trying to give MonoDevelop another chance so I’m in the process of re-doing the GUI in LAT. It’s going to be a slow process of re-creating the various widgets/dialogs, copying the old code in and then testing it.
You can follow the work in my git repository: git clone git://www.lbtechservices.com/lat.git
For the last few months I’ve been unable to do much in the way of developing LAT.
The first issue is MonoDevelop. In the 1.3 branch, I started to make more use of MonoDevelop features. I switched from building the interface in Glade to MonoDevelop’s Stetic UI builder.
This made development much easier and I was able to clean up a lot of interface issues. However, I found new MonoDevelop releases wouldn’t compile the project any more. I reported the bug and some things got fixed but overall it stopped development cold.
As of MonoDevelop 0.15 I can’t even open the project anymore. It just crashes try to load the solution file. Even with the stable 1.2 branch, I can open the project but it refuses to compile with some strange errors.
The second issue is Mono, specifically the Novell.Directory.Ldap assembly. It doesn’t support non-Latin characters as far as I can tell. TLS support is broken. There is no support for GSSAPI for Kerberos intergration.
I can’t implement the features I want with the way things currently are. I guess I could try and fix it myself but it took me months to get one SSL bugfix accepted and then I had to wait for the next two Mono releases before I could use it. The TLS bug I reported has been open for over a year now. It doesn’t inspire confidence.
I’m not really interested in re-doing all the UI work in Glade and then switching back to a Gedit/Terminal/Glade workflow. Overall LAT does what I need it for and my itch is basically scratched. So as it stands, I don’t think I will be doing any more releases of LAT past 1.2.3 which I just pushed out today. If someone is interested in taking over the project, let me know.
LDAP Administration Tool 1.2.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release. Changes since 1.2.2:
Downloads: tar.gz
Sussen 0.90 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems.
We are getting closer to v1.0. The remaining items to do are to fix the remaining bugs in bugzilla, clean up the look/feel of the web console. The editor has been disabled for now, it won’t be ready in time for 1.0, but we’ll keep working on it for the 1.1/1.2 branch.
We are also working on setting up an OVAL repository so we can provide updated definitions in a more timely manner. I’ll have more details on that later.
Changes since 0.35:
Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 7) | .deb (Ubuntu 6.06) | .deb (Ubuntu 7.04) | .msi (Windows)
There are now new mailing lists available for the LAT and Sussen projects. For more information see the list info pages:
Sussen 0.35 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. Changes since 0.34:
Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 6) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .msi (Windows)
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