Landon Fuller

For the past few years, I've been fiddling with OpenDarwin's libFoundation in my spare time -- of which there is admitedly very little. For those new to the party, OpenDarwin's libFoundation project was an attempt to rewrite, refactor, and otherwise port the original libFoundation, as written by Ovidiu Predescu, Mircea Oancea, and Helge Hess, to Darwin. The end goals were simple. In order of importance:

• Have fun working on something silly in both scope and purpose, with little chance of success.
• Implement a light-weight, modern, well-written, unit tested, documented, mostly-complete, BSD-licensed Objective-C Foundation library.

The first goal was easily achieved, and surprisingly enough, I've been making some good progress on the second. With OpenDarwin's impending cessation of operation, I decided to set aside a week of my copious vacation time supplied by my generous employer to find OpenDarwin's libFoundation a new home, and tackle some difficult problems, including a unicode-aware NSString. I'm pleased to say that the week was well spent, and the newly christened Objective-C Substrate was the end result.

I'd like to announce the first release candidate of version 2.0 of my LDAP authentication plugin for OpenVPN

This release is a vast improvement on the rudimentary 1.0 plugin -- new features include:

• Full support for LDAP search filters -- no more DN templates required.
• Group-based access control. (rfc2307bis / LDAP)
• Integration with the OpenBSD Packet Filter. Can add and remove VPN clients to PF tables on connect/disconnect -- even on the basis of group membership. Tested on FreeBSD.
• Easy to understand Apache-style configuration file.