Hello Andreas, our project (x2go) has an LDAP Administration Gui (http://www.x2go.org/index.php?id=42) which can be used with the LDAP tree of Skolelinux (with minor changes). But at the moment we are discussing the future of the kcontrol plugins. The idea of developing a JSON based administration API for x2go would mean, that we discontinue the modules.
best regards, Heinz 2010/3/8 Andreas B. Mundt <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > with the release of Debian Edu lenny 5.0.4+edu0 and the forthcoming > release of Debian Edu lenny 5.0.4+edu1 development of Debian Edu > Squeeze is brought more and more into focus. > > I would like to mention and stress the importance of a graphical user > interface to ldap as essential and very important component of the > DebianEdu/Skolelinux distribution. In my impression this component > seems to be rather disregarded at the moment. "Subprojects", regional > or local groups try to address the problem with alternative tools that > allow teachers short in time the easy administration of users, groups, > machines or even more. > > Currently we provide lwat as very simple but also very limited > GU-interface to ldap. The last upload to Debian happened almost two > years ago on 2008-03-28, and upstream (in)activity is comparable. A > lot of wishlist bugs have been filed, patches almost trivially to > include are in the Debian BTS since ages. To me, it seems as if there > are no resources left to ensure a minimum of maintenance, not to talk > about further development and general improvements. > > I consider the administration of the ldap tree as core component of > our system. Here, the teacher and very limited part-time admin closely > interacts with the system, here he decides to take the burden of being > the person responsible for it. If I look at the lwat login screen now, > it welcomes me with typos in the text and a copyright notice from > 2007; all in all not very encouraging. > > I think we need either to reactivate development and maintenance of > lwat and manage to ensure this in the long term, or we need to > find alternatives, evaluate these and decide to support a solution > with active and reliable upstream. Without any further analysis I > heard about gosa, CipUX, perhaps webmin can be repackaged [1] or > phpLDAPadmin extended, ... no idea. > > What are your opinions with regard to this situation? Any suggestions > and ideas how to improve it? > > However, it should be clear that we will have no chance to be > competitive if we do not care. > > Regards > Andi > > > [1] It seems to be removed because nobody cared: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343897 > from a first glance it seems to be actively developed. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100308103316.ga8...@flashgordon > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
