Mandriva Directory Server 2.4.0 available

Hello,

Mandriva Directory Server 2.4.0 is available for download at
http://mds.mandriva.org

Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) is a Free Software project that
features:
 * user authentication and management thanks to LDAP
 * an extensible, nice looking and AJAX powered PHP web interface called
MMC (Mandriva Management Console), provided with 5 modules: 
   * Users and groups management
   * SAMBA accounts and shares management
   * DNS/DHCP management
   * Email delivery management
   * Web proxy blacklist management
 * a Python dedicated management API for LDAP, SAMBA, and SQUID (core of
the MDS and the MMC)
 * a policy system, that will allow to define users right on network
resource

Major new MDS features for this release:
 * The audit module permits full monitoring and reporting of all
modifications carried out via the MMC web interface. It allows
administrators to know who did what, and when. All these events are
recorded: LDAP modifications, all filesystem related modifications, and
service management (stop, start, ...)
 * The new LDAP password policy module makes it possible to apply user
password rules : complexity, minimum size, age of validity, etc. 
 * New community contributed modules:
   * To massively import/update users from a CSV file
   * To set disk and network quota to users
   * Thanks to Glen Ogilvie for these new modules :)

Other new features:
 * LDAP TLS support
 * Support for PowerDNS LDAP
 * New module to manage OpenSSH LDAP Public Keys attributes for users

Thanks a lot to the contributors who updates the translations. The MMC
web interface is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French,
German and Spanish. If your language is not supported, we will be happy
to welcome new translators.

Another major update is that MDS has been splitted into two parts:
 * "MMC-CORE": is the core Mandriva Management Console framework, also
used by the Mandriva Pulse 2 project, an IT asset management solution
for heterogeneous networks (see http://pulse2.mandriva.org)
 * "MDS": contains all MDS specific modules
This split will allow us to release new MMC-CORE version if needed for
new Pulse 2 release.
Future MMC-CORE release will be announced separately on MDS and Pulse 2
announce mailing list.

MDS is available for all major Linux distributions, and is integrated
into Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.


To test this new version, a VMware image based on Mandriva Enterprise
Server 5 is available on the download page:
http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/Download

Installation instructions are available on the documentation page:
http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/Documentation

Upgrade instructions are available on the upgrade procedures page:
http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/UpgradeProcedure

Details on changes are available on the release notes page:
http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes

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