OpenCOE 1.1.4.1 Released
2003 Oct 10

OpenCOE 1.1.4.1 is released and includes a new GUI installer courtesy of IzPack. The OpenCOE Kernel web site is now official moved to http://www.opencoe.org. This site will become the offical opencoe repository/catalog for installable application segments.



Source published for DISA COE 4.x for Linux
2003 Aug 30

The Jet Propulsion Lab, DISA, and Freestandards.org appear to have published the original source for the 4.x COE Kernel on Linux. Their site is http://coe.gforge.freestandards.org and the source code can be found in cvs at http://gforge.freestandards.org/scm/?group_id=8

The current code base at the http://rhinohide.cx/opencoe site is a reimplementation of the 3.x COE Kernel distinct from the DISA source.



OpenCOE 1.1.4.0
2003 Aug 18

The coekernel-latest.tgz contains the latest (1.1.4.0) kernel.

The coekernel-source.tgz contains a source based release. You will need Apache Ant to complete the compile/installation.



New Status Page
2003 Apr 17

New unit tests are being incorporated into the COE Kernel segments and the results summarized in the Status page.



Red Hat COE uses openinstallation.org tools
2003 Mar 17

Browsing the DII COE Linux Kernel source, I noticed that the COE Installer is based on java code (named JIFI) from http://www.openinstallation.org. JIFI implements a Java Specification Request 38 sponsored by DISA. You can download jax files from the cited site.



DII COE 4.2.0.6 for RedHat Linux 7.2
2002 July 25

DISA makes a move. After months of rumours, the official Linux port of the DII COE Kernel has been released. It is still distributed under a non-disclosure agreement. The executables and some supporting documentation are available at http://www.disa.mil/coe/kpc/linuxpc.html.



OpenCOE 1.1.3.0
2002 June 18

Note the addition of some convenience links to the kernel tar files.
The coekernel-development.tgz. will get you the full development kernel (sans source).
The coekernel-devlite.tgz. will get you the COE, OS, UserMgmt, and UAM segments and source.
The coekernel-latest.tgz. will get you the latest "stable" release.
And, of course, the latest release is coekernel-1.1.3.0.tgz.



OpenCOE 1.1.2.0
2002 May 22


OpenCOE 1.1.1.1
2002 May 20


OpenCOE 1.1.1.0 bugs
2002 May 20


OpenCOE 1.1.1.0
2002 May 12
OpenCOE 1.1.1.0 was released. Annouced on Freshmeat. Extensive improvements to the UAM Manager allowing the edits of Users and Profiles. Some Unix Group management features added.


Sourceforge CVS Import completed
2002 Apr 19
The CVS import of the 1.1.0.0 code is complete. Check out http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/opencoe.


Freshmeat Listing
2002 Apr 17
Hoping for some interested parties to join me in test and development, I have setup a Freshmeat listing. Welcome. Drop me a line at rbroberg@users.sf.net.


Release 1.1.0.0
2002 Apr 15
Work on OpenCOE resumed this winter so now it is time for a new release. This release contains a Software Installer that can load segments from a local repository and a primitive User/Profile manager that can create a user on a Posix system that has sudo and expect loaded. An SDK is included for rolling your own segments. Install documentation updated. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The 1.X series is development only. The 2.X series will be pre-releases with the 3.X to be a working implementation of the DII COE 3.X APIs.


Install Notes added and Segment Update
2001 May 10
I noticed that the March 31 Segments were not all loaded unto the site. They are now available. And the cd installation script has been modified to support an ftp download and install. See the bootstrap notes on the ftp site or at OpenCOE Bootstrap Installation Notes.


Welcome, COE Developers!
2001 May 09
Two letters and a bunch of hits from "official" sites and it seems that OpenCOE is on someone's radar. I am scrambling to update the site for you. New software, new installation notes, CVS entries at sourceforge are all scheduled for the next two weeks. So if you don't see what you want, send me a note at ronbroberg@yahoo.com and I will see what I can do. New FAQ at http://rhinohide.cx/opencoe/Resources/opencoe_faq.html.


OpenCOE goes public at the CLIQ
2001 March 30
All this activity had a reason. I was invited to lead a group discussion at the Colorado Linux Information Quest on March 30. I had several interested participants who drilled me on the purpose of pursuing a COE project. I can summarize that in 3 broad goals.
1. The COE user/profile/application ACL model is known by large (hundreds to thousands) of DoD/Contractor sysads and engineers. A familiar model is more likely to be deployed than an unfamilair one.
2. By providing a preprocessed and tested openCOE segment library of open sourced software, that software is more likely to be used by COE engineers.
3. An open source COE project may provide engineering solutions that are usefull to the DII COE project. For instance, a more robust segmentation toolkit or improved auditing/logging functionality.
I had great fun and the conference spurred me on to a great deal of coding. We now have a working prototype of the openCOE environment. You can get a slide presentation at ftp://rhinohide.cx/usr/rhinohide/OpenCOE/opencoe_mar31.ppt.


openCOE Staff Account Group Released
2001 March 29
The staff account group provides a template for creating new profiles for common users.


System Administrator Account Group Released
2001 March 29
The security administrator account group adds a secman user to the system and provides application data for the User Account Management Tools.


System Administrator Account Group Released
2001 March 29
The system administrator account group adds a sysadmin user to the system and provides application data for the segment installer.


openCOE developers' toolkit (coe_dev) Released
2001 March 29
The coe_dev segment includes the tools needed to create and validate new segments


COE Kernel Release
2001 March 29
The COE Kernel is the heart of the openCOE Platform. Included our the user tools ApplicationManager and ProfileSelector as well as the segment installation tool COEInstaller.


Java2 Release
2001 March 29
This is Sun's JRE for Java2 1.3 for Linux. This and Perl 5 form the runtime environment for openCOE.


PERL5 Release
2001 March 29
This is Perl 5.6 compilied for Linux. This and Java2 form the runtime environment for openCOE.


Operating System Interface (OS) Alpha Release
2001 March 29
This segment provides the capability to interface to the operating system to edit users, groups, inetd.conf and to get OS specific information such as the next available uid.


User Account Management Tools (UAM) Alpha Release
2001 March 29
The Java2 GUIs for user management are built. They include UAM_Manager which is a database browser, UAMEditGroup, UAM_EditProfile, and UAM_EditUser. The three Edit tools can be called up in three modes: edit, create, delete. However, only the create mode is currently enabled in EditUser and EditProfile. More work to come.


User Management APIs (UserMgmt) Completed Today
2001 February 28
All User Management APIs now have an alpha version coded. This is a complete set of the User Profile APIs indentified in the Application Program Interface Reference Manual (APIRM) for Kernel and Developer's Toolkit Version 3.3.0.0 (HP-UX/Solaris 2.5.1) . V0.0.0.2 will have all flags enabled (including man pages). V0.0.0.3 will have output verified against a DII COE version. V0.0.0.4 will have exit status checked against DII COE originals. V0.0.0.4 will then be packaged as an OpenCOE software segment and released as V3.0.0.0 to indicate DII COE 3.X compatability. You can download a copy at ftp://rhinohide.cx/usr/rhinohide/OpenCOE.

Still to come: the User Management APIs Documentation and User's Manual
Still to come: the User Management Tools -- SSOEditProfiles, SSOProfiles, ProfileSelector.