pGina

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):

Update 3/8/2007: Total Raised: $1000!! Total Needed: $0

Thanks to:
Nils Østbjerg @ SAMF-IT, Aalborg University, Denmark
Douglas Phillipson
James Powers
and Tom O’Donnel @ University of Maine Farmington

Pending receipt of the funds from invoices, this means we have raised enough for the initial goal of an MSDN Professional subscription! Thank you to all!. I still encourage people to give if they are able. Additional funds will be put toward future pGina effort through purchase of tools, documentation etc. Accordingly, anyone who contributes will also be included in the beta program for the Vista edition when it becomes available. Thanks for your continued support!

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!