Le Thursday 21 October 2010 17:43:26 Jürgen Leibner, vous avez écrit : > On Thursday 21 October 2010 17:17 Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Andreas,
Hello, > > once again a mail about the LDAP administration tool we need in > > Debian-Edu. Since Petter's mail > > <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2010/09/msg00110.html> > > almost a month passed: > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 06:59:44PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > Here is a short update on the LDAP admin status for Debian Edu > > > based on Squeeze. > > > > The only changes I know of concern GOsa and the latest package in > > squeeze which fixes the password exposure issue; now you need to > > be either root or www-data to see the environment in the process > > list. Changes to debian-edu-config are minimal, I will apply them as > > soon as 2.6.11-2 enters squeeze, which should happen in approximately > > a week from now. The mass creation of users works in my tests too. > > > > Please add information about progress on the other tools mentioned. > > > > My question is: > > > > What is the plan? Almost since the beginning of this year we decide > > *not* to decide anything at all concerning LDAP administration. I > > think this is fine for some time, to see how things evolve. > > > > But at some point it just takes away motivation and leads to a > > passive waiting for the things to come. Nobody wants to spend his > > time on things that are rejected in the end. > > > > How long do we want to continue waiting and for what? For another > > alternative tool turning up at the horizon that promises everything? > > Squeeze+1? Miracles? Or do we prefer to have 2 half-baked > > administration tools, one for users and groups, one for machines and > > netgroups, a couple of scripts to add users and ldapvi for all > > remaining stuff? > > > > In my opinion it is better to accept that there is no perfect tool > > available at the moment (and perhaps forever), and to decide _now_ > > which administration tool we want to ship for squeeze. After that > > decision, it makes sense to complete the integration. There should be > > time left to test and look into remaining issues and fixes, to > > document and prepare the manual. > > > > So let's name things by their names: > > > > As Petter already listed, we have 3 candidates: CipUX, GOsa and > > lwat. (Or is there already another one approaching?) > > > > Which tool do we ship for squeeze? (And keep in mind: not deciding is > > also a decision, but I doubt it's the best one for > > Debian-Edu/skolelinux a couple (?) of months before squeeze release). > > for me, lwat is dead, CipUX is not suited enough for the system > administration tasks and GOsa is not near enough to the educational > tasks. > The smallest pain seems to be GOsa in my opinion. > So please go ahead and integrate it, with the hope to get help from the > GOsa people around here. If GOsa is decide to be the interface to Debian Edu i will be happy to help you. Cheers -- Benoit Mortier CEO OpenSides "logiciels libres pour entreprises" : http://www.opensides.eu/ Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre http://www.april.org/ Contributor to Gosa Project : http://gosa-project.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
