Duckwater: Simplified name services management

Recent News

Duckwater Standalone Enhancements in snv_93

The Duckwater (phase 0) standalone tools improvements, as well as a
number of improvements in connection management were delivered in snv_93.

Details on the Duckwater standalone changes can be found here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/duckwater/duckwater_phase0/

Introduction

Duckwater is a project to provide a simplified solution to nameservices (NS) management.

A major goal of this project is to improve the functionality of the LDAP NS backend to make it more approachable. This includes auto configuration of the client where possible, meaningful error messages and validation of data before loading them on the server.

Another goal of this project is to allow for the existence of multiple NS configurations in a system. These configurations must be easy to create/modify and it must be easy to activate/deactivate a selected NS configuration. These configurations could be in the form of name service profiles. These profiles will define the overall NS configuration of the system capturing information such as the domain name, the name service switch (/etc/nsswitch.conf) info, etc.

This project will work closely with the NWAM project, the SMF community, the Sparks project, and possibly the Visual Panels project.

Why Duckwater? See here.

Source Repository

duckwater-hg: Anonymous pull is allowed. You must either be a leader of this project (or a committer for the duckwater-hg repository) to push. Please visit the OpenSolaris Mercurial page read these instructions on how to use Mercurial repositories.

Status: The repository is now live, and is synced daily with the Nevada Mercurial gate.

To bringover from the duckwater\-hg repository

   
$ hg clone ssh://your\-login@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/duckwater/duckwater\-hg

For more information see the Build Status & Gate Information page for further details.

Build Status

This project is currently idle.