Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Daouda LO wrote:
> > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>I have some issues with userdrake, and I have actually started on some
> >>work on it,
> > 
> > 
> > What do you want to do exactly?
> 
> 1) s/passwd/Password (I think this is done, just need to test it again
> and make a patch) and similar issues.

Not related to the Gui. Is it?

> 2)Add a feature to set smbpasswd, either a new entry in the menu (but
> there isn't space to write a decent entry, since 'set smbpasswd' is not
> the kind of thing a windows user would guess). Maybe a checkbox in the
> dialog to set a windows password for the user at the same time as the
> normal password, to the same one?

Why not add a modal window like the ldap one? Put an entry in
userdrake menu and create a sub window for Samba conf.

> There are complications for this with ldap.
> 
> BTW, LDAP support isn't complete ... I haven't managed to actually use
> userdrake to modify ldap entries ... I use smbldaptools or ldapbrowser
> or gq.

I'm not good at Ldap thingies so i trust you.

> >>but before I proceed, I would like to know whether it will be wasted
> >>effort or not.
> > 
> > 
> > Definately not. It was halfly ported (some segfaulting remains due to presence
> > of gobject in the code). The port was delayed due to lack of time.
> > 
> > 
> >>Is userdrake going to be updated to gtk2 for 9.1?
> > 
> > Normand response, Maybe yes and maybe no :-) 
> 
> So should I work from a cvs copy?

The question is should we go this way or rewrite userdrake in perl by
adding features to adduserdrake ? 
Meanwhile, you can work on actual Gtk1 userdrake -> Gtk2 segfaults all
the time and is time consuming. 

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