pGina

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All downloads, files, code etc are on the main sourcforge site:

Sourceforge: pGina on Sourceforge
Wiki: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/pgina/index.php
Forums: http://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/pgina/

Last Status Update

With my latest, and last, status update I am forced to announce what many already know. I simply do not have the necessary time to continue as lead and maintainer for the pGina project. From this point forward, until a suitable replacement has volunteered, the pGina project will be unmaintained.

I originally created pGina in 2000/2001 (wow, yah) in response to a personal/professional need while working for the Computer Science and Engineering department at Pacific Luthern University (http://www.cs.plu.edu). At the time, pGina allowed me, as it has allowed my successors, to authenticate the department’s windows lab/office machines against a central Sun Solaris server (initially via LDAP, then via PAM). After leaving PLU, my need for pGina dwindled (as I no longer managed any signifigant set of machines) - but the communities need exploded. In what seemed like no time at all, several translations of pGina were in use in thousands of large institutions and business throughout the world. I’ve spent the years since then maintaining, expanding, fostering, and even occassionally making money from pGina. However, in the last several years many personal and professional changes (growing family, changes in industry etc) had caused me to re-prioritize and place pGina as a ’spare time only’ effort.

For some time now my intentions have been good (get 2.0 out, clean up some old bugs, etc etc), but my spare time has been non-existant. As a result, and in order to prevent the continued “when? when? when?” and growing frustration of my ever patient and kind users I am forced to simply draw a line and admit that I cannot get these things done. With luck, someone with the time and interest will step forward to take leadership over the project. When this person asks, I will hand over the virtual reigns, providing administrative access to the sourceforge site, pgina.org domain, etc. So if you are that person, send me an email: nate at pgina dot org.

In the meantime, I will activate an online forum via the sourceforge site, and recommend that users use this forum to communicate and
continue the growth and substance that has come to define the pGina community. I’ll undoubtedly lurk, and offer what input I can ;).

Many thanks, many apologies, and many well wishes to all.
Nate Yocom
pGina Creator, Developer and Code Monkey

While not fully feature complete, or nearly close to being fully tested, I wanted to give a big thanks to those who donated and pass the good news to all that I have gotten the base pGina for Vista (to be called pGina 2.0) setup and am in the process of rapidly implementing features.

This won’t be a complete port of the Pre-Vista pGina versions - as the change in authentication architecture simply doesn’t allow for some of the fancier things. But those things which make sense in the new architecture will be included eventually, along with new features which compliment Vista and the new code base.

Just to provide that much more excitement, I present you with a screenshot of the first successful load of pGina 2.0 in Vista EE (click to open larger):

The plugin bundle has been updated to include the latest RADIUS and LDAPAuth plugins built for the x86_64 version of pGina. Thanks to Holger for rebuilding the RADIUS plugin!

You read that right. pGina 1.8.8 is now up on the Sourceforge site for download. Here is the changelog for this version:

- Merged TS/RDP credential retrieval code from Marc Hocking
- Merged domain admin unlock fix from Michael Brotzman
- Include x86_64 build/installer
- Merged Secondary Login Script patch from Carolina Bruzzoni
- Include Thai locale
- Domain user unlock (self) fix from Michael Brotzman
- Domain support in TS/RDP code, *should* fix Single User + Domain + TS/RDP

Note that users who do not have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed should also install the included vcredist package (included in the pGina package zip file) as this contains redistributable components required by pGina.

Of course the highlight here is the x86_64 build/installer which is now included. Please note however, that a 64 bit dll (i.e. pGina) cannot load a 32 bit dll (i.e. plugins). So currently the x64 build is really only useful for developers wishing to build their own x64 plugins. Any plugin developers who can, should provide me an x86_64 build/installer for their plugin and I’ll update the plugin bundle accordingly. I am also working on a rebuild of the LDAPAuth plugin for x64 to be released RSN - so watch here for more news when there is some.

I’d like to thank Dalhousie University Faculty of Computer Science for their generous support, which led to my being able to complete the x86_64 port! Thanks!

You’ll notice that all the various file downloads have moved to our sourceforge project site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgina. Please also notice the new address for our site http://www.pgina.org, so update your bookmarks and pointers!