Univention beeing behind on updating join-scripts

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Hello everyone,

we are currently looking into the UCS as a substitute for our MSAD and plan on switching to Linux completely.
While we were pretty excited when we discovered univention, meanwhile I got quite concerned. I even started to research if this product is still under active development.

It seems like the Domain Join Assistant got its last update exactly 1 year ago and is still not compatible (or at least in the repo for Ubunut 22.04 or newer.
Also, there are these manual domain join instructions (1. Integration of Ubuntu clients into a UCS domain — Univention Corporate Server - Extended domain services documentation). Here it is pointed out that the latest Ubuntu version they tested it with is 14.04 LTS.
I mean, what? seriously? Am I missing here something? Did I maybe load a totally outdated website and missed the updated version?

And indeed on Ubuntu 23.10 the script fails because “auth-client-config” is not in the official repo anymore.

Can somebody please clarify why univention is so far behind with keeping things up to date?
Also, what are the workarounds? How can I manually join my Ubuntu 23.10 without “auth-client-config”?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Hey WolfgrammJ,

I don’t know how you came to that conclusion: Every supported Ubuntu version resides in it’s own branch. The branch ubuntu22.04 got it’s last update 3 months ago: Branches · univention/univention-domain-join · GitHub

The initial support of Ubuntu 22.04 was released a year ago: 54775 – univention-domain-join: add support for Ubuntu 22.04. If the join does not work with Ubuntu 22.04 you can post your findings here or open a normal support ticket in case that you a eligible for support.

You are right, that seems to be outdated. We already have a bug report for this, as far as I am aware this does only concern the documentation, the tests are indeed making use of the latest LTS version: 54903 – Update Ubuntu section to latest maintained Ubuntu version

The Domain Join Assistant is only released for LTS versions of Ubuntu, so there won’t be a new version for 23.10, but for 24.04 of course.

Best regards
Jan-Luca

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Hello everyone,

is there already a time plan when the Univention Client Join Script for Ubuntu 24.04 will be updated? I would be very interested

Regards

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Hello everyone,

I would be very interested in an updated version of the Client Join Script as well!

Regards

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Hello everyone,

is there any update or schedule when there will be an update for the join script?

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Hi everyone,

here is the latest join-script for Ubuntu.

Kind regards,
Mirac

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Hey @MiracErde,

this Join Script is not for Ubuntu 24.04.

Is there a status when the script for Ubuntu 24.04 will be updated?

Greetings

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Hi xBr0th3rx,

I cannot give an exact status on when an update to the script will be available, but I believe it should work on 24.04.

If I were you, I would give it a try if you have not already done so.

Greetings,
Mirac

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Hey @MiracErde,
I have already tried it but there are also wrong dependencies and the confs are not configured correctly.

Greetings

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Thanks for the feedback, we will have a look at this. Progress will be synced to the repo, but I will update here when the 24.04 is officially supported.

Regards
Jan-Luca

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Hey,
I just wanted to mention that we released the join for 24.04 some days ago: Packages in “Univention” : Univention : Univention
Regards
Jan-Luca