Hi list, On 02/15/2011 07:31 PM, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > I think the best way to do the migration is completely independent of > all changes I proposed:
Should we start a different thread for this? > * Prepare a list (csv) of all user for every category you use: > students, teachers, etc. Yes? At some schools the default database are indeed an external one. There this might be possible. However, for universities or large companies - where the users seldom change and large changes can be seen in LDAP, I always used the LDAP database as authoritative choice. Are you really suggesting to build a CSV file from a LDAP server to re-import that? Which LDAP attributes should be considered for the CVS file? Or could you say more about this situation? > * Prepare a (GOsa-) template for each category. Could you elaborate more on this? > * Mass-create all users from the lists. For each category use the > corresponding template. > > Well, where do you draw the line? It is now the chance to make these The line is: Is there a _technical_ reason? > changes (and in my opinion without extra minutes for the 's'). This > chance will not come again soon (hopefully). The missing 's' will be > missing "forever". If every second school in the world uses debian-edu > ;-) it will be too late, but the missing 's' will be still annoying > (at least to some). And yes all those small 's' do steal you time. Trust me. I worked years in that field ... > But I think (and made the experience when working on debian-edu), that > after quite some years since the beginning of skolelinux, here and > there cruft has built up. It's time to refurbish some things. This may > cause a bit more work for now (not the 's'), but will in the end > lead to a more attractive and better maintainable system. And this is > true for maintainers, developers as well as for our users in the > schools. I am in favor of progress. The 's' is just cosmetic - not progress. So if we need Kerberos (I am not convinced) then I vote for it! But if you ask about groups or group, I vote for: do not change it. Cheers C. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
