> There is the "authz_ownership" module https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/AuthorizationWithOwnership Thank you, I'll look into it. Can it be used with Kerberos? I currently have Kerberos working and it seems to require (authz_allowall). I'll test it and see if it works.
> As a sidenote, since you sound like you are interested in helping us work on > Cobbler Web, I'd love to, but I'm not familiar with Django (Python) development. Both have steep learning curves - especially since I'm starting from scratch. It'll be months before I'm even a little bit productive. I love learning new things, so I'll start climbing the Python/Django learning curve now and I'll let you know when I'm skilled enough to contribute. > This could be done as a seperate Django app in the cobbler Django project > It really warrants a new thread on cobbler-devel list there, would you like > to start one? I would, but not quite yet. We're going to deploy cobbler 1.6.6. Feels like this thread will be good when we decide to go with 2.0. For now I'm going to concentrate on modifying the Systems page for 1.6.6. Any suggestions there? Paul On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Michael DeHaan<[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/11/2009 09:33 PM, Paul Company wrote: >> I'm running cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL 5.3. >> >> Three Questions: >> >> Q1: Is there a way to have the Web UI behavior change according to the >> person that logs in? >> For example, I'd like it if user "foo" has full access to everything, >> but user "bar" to only be able to create systems. >> Listing distros, profiles, and repos is ok, but I don't want >> bar to have the ability to add or delete distros, profiles or repos. >> > There is the "authz_ownership" module which is detailed on the Wiki > under the security pages, that can restrict > what objects people can edit. > > At a generic level, there's not a concept for a read-only user group, > but that's probably something that could be easily > added. > > As a sidenote, since you sound like you are interested in helping us > work on Cobbler Web, new things need to be done on the "master" > branch, which targets 2.0 -- that should be out in a month. >> Q2: Has anyone customized the "Add System" web page? >> I'm not a web programmer but I'd like to simplify/customize >> the "Add System" page so it's simpler for our end user. >> I'd to add fields like "Location" and have the values entered >> show up as --ksmeta values; so if you enter Location: nyc, >> that would get processed into --ksmeta="loc=nyc" >> Also, things like, if one chooses a profile that isn't a vm profile, >> then don't show the VM stuff. Or if power management >> is disabled, don't show the power management stuff. etc. >> > > We've had some ideas on this, about making templates for self-service > views in Cobbler. > > This could be done as a seperate Django app in the cobbler Django > project, and I would like to see something like > this very much. > > It really warrants a new thread on cobbler-devel list there, would you > like to start one? > > I have a fair amount of ideas from our own IT guys -- things that we > didn't quite implement yet -- but I think that would be exceptionally > powerful. It really warrants a new thread on cobbler-devel list there, would > you > like to start one? > >> Q3: Should I wait for cobbler 2.0 which uses Django? >> Or should I plow ahead with the current mod_python stuff? >> > > Aha, I got ahead of myself. Glad you're aware of that :) > > Yes, we need to do things on 2.0, since it will be out soon, and porting > anything done to the old codebase will be a lot of extra effort. > >> Any tips/information/examples on developing mod_python or Django web >> pages would be a big help. >> > > Do a checkout of git's master branch and do a "make webtest" to get started. > > Code lives in the "web" directory and should be fairly self explanatory, > but I'd be more than happy to answer any specific questions. > > Hoping on #cobbler and #cobbler-devel on irc.freenode.net is also a > great idea. > >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
