about me
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria
Job: Sysadmin at the University of Klagenfurt Computer Center
Email: gerald dot hochegger (AT) uni-klu dot ac dot at
I've used many Linux distributions but always endend up compiling or backporting many packages by myself. I'm a Debian user since 2002 and are very pleased with the half year release cycle in Ubuntu, which helps me a lot.
work at ubuntu
searched the net for a fix for an anoying glibc bug affecting highly threaded Java programs http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7897
Help with NFSv4 and NFSv4Howto
VServer on Ubuntu
current interests
- mass deployments of Ubuntu as dual boot option on our University computers
- User Management with LDAP, Kerberos
- Samba and LDAP
- NFSv4 for user home directories
ongoing projects
unixDS - Unix Directory Services
A java server that syncronizes user account properties in LDAP for posixAccounts Samba, Kerberos, ... (generates Samba, Kerberos .. passwords if you change your password)- Extendable by sync-plugins that are called on changes in the Ldap tree
- Import and sync users/groups from an external (master) Ldap server (Novell NDS)
- pam_unixds library with enhanced authentication and account management
I hope to get a first release out this year.