Lab Notes

Elektron and Leopard

The lab rats have been busy this weekend making sure that Elektron is fully compatible with the final release of Leopard. It only took a couple of minor tweaks, and a new release is now available! You'll only need this release if you're planning on running Elektron on Leopard; if you are keeping your server on Panther or Tiger (or Windows, for that matter) your existing Elektron installation will continue to authenticate Leopard users just fine.

The biggest Leopard Wi-Fi news is the disappearance of Internet Connect. All Wi-Fi configuration now occurs in the Network preference pane inside System Preferences:

One handy new feature is the ability to store 802.1X configurations on a per-user, per-system, or Login Window basis. The per-user configuration is basically how Tiger works; per-system allows you to create a single configuration for all users on the system (that is, the 802.1X login identifies the machine rather than an individual user), and the Login Window configuration allows the user to specify a username and password at login time to connect to the network before logging in. This final configuration is important for users without local accounts.

All in all, a very nice release.