The mailing list for users of the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT)

[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

I would like to add two comments:
1. Windows nad Apple installers are signed with a TCS code signing
certificate belonging to Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun). This is absolutely temporary,
the production version will definitely use a certificate poinitng
directly to CAT service.

2. The Windows 8 installer would not be worth mentioning except for one
thing - TTLS no longer requires SecureW2 addition, it now used generic
Windows 8 support for this method.

Tomasz


W dniu 06.04.2012 16:24, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hello all,
>
> a little Easter present.
>
> We have just rolled out the new release of eduroam CAT, release
> 1.0-alpha3S. This is the first time we're announcing it to an open list
> for wider testing. You can now find the most current code base under
>
> http://cat-test.eduroam.org
>
> This is the only URL you'll need in the future - you can access the user
> and admin areas respectively from that main page by pushing the
> unoverlookably big blue buttons.
>
> Mobile devices are redirected to a simplistic download interface to
> satisfy screen size constraints. If you steer to the web page with a
> mobile device, this should happen automatically - if not, you can
> manually point it to http://cat-test.eduroam.org/basic.php
>
> A run-down of new features compared to alpha2 is below, but important
> things first: we have a mailing list for users of the system. Please
> point people who use the system and have a bug or question (or
> compliment, for that matter :-) ) to
>
> http://mail.geant.net/mailman/listinfo/cat-users
>
> for subscription information for 
> cat-users AT geant.net.
>  Please subscribe
> before posting, posts from non-members to the list are a very tedious thing.
>
> When you log in to the admin area, you'll see the biggest new feature:
> we want to know who you are, and bind IdPs to administrators. Right now
> we have only enabled Google as an IdP, but it's just a matter of
> simpleSAMLphp configuration to add more in the future. See the TNC2012
> conference login for how we imagine it to be in the final release.
>
> The second big new feature is multi-linguality all around: IdP names,
> Profile names, all user-visible strings can be entered in multiple
> languages. There is a "default/all" language setting. Usually, you
> should have at least one entry with "all/default". If you only have
> specific languages, and the user wants to download an installer in a
> non-configured language - they won't see the names. Usually, I would
> think the typical choice would be to use an English representation of
> the name as default.
>
> You can also upload Terms of Use files in the same multi-lingual manner.
>
> There is preliminary support to enable Posture Assessment (NEA), at
> least for recent Windows installers (Vista, 7, 8). We are not sure if
> that really works though; it merely flips the on/off toggle in the EAP
> properties, but does not activate the posture assessment engine (that
> would need admin rights on the target machine - we don't know if we want
> to ask for admin rights).
>
> Tomasz also gave the admin area the same fresh look that the user area
> always had. Hope you like it.
>
> In terms of installers supported, we now have something for the current
> Windows 8 beta.
>
> After you log in for the first time, you'll notice that "You are not
> managing any institutions" - the database had to be flushed, there were
> just too many schema differences. On the bottom of the same page you'll
> see that "You are authorised to create new institutions" - just fill out
> the fields, and an email invitation token will be sent to the prospect
> IdP admin. That could be yourself :-)  Note that the privilege is meant
> only for federation-level operators. Right now, to facilitate easy
> testing, every logged in user has that privilege. We'll trim down this
> privilege before going for 1.0, of course. We've already received
> feedback that a visual feedback like "the mail has been sent" would be
> nice - that feature will be in the next release.
>
> Every legitimate admin can invite other people to co-admin his IdP. As
> soon as you are an IdP admin, you'll get a separate "Invite" button for
> that specific IdP.
>
> One thing we are particularly interested in is finding out what you
> think about the complexity of the admin interface - we have to query the
> administrator for a lot of information; we hope we are not overloading
> people with the interface - please let us know your feelings via the
> above-mentioned mailing list.
>
> eduroam CAT 1.0alpha3S is available in 9 languages, most of which are
> 100% translated.
>
> You'll notice more little things that changed. We tried to support
> oldish/strange browsers, but if you use Internet Explorer < 9 you might
> be up for surprises. In general, upgrading your browser is the best
> bugfix :-)
>
> The tar release of the source code will be on downloads.geant.net
> "shortly" (pending manual processing from a GEANT intranet admin).
>
> And now, keep the bug reports coming! If all goes well, we can with a
> good consciousness call the next release "beta1".
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter
>