Le 04/10/2017 à 16:44, Radovan Semancik a écrit : > On 10/04/2017 01:47 PM, Lothar Haeger wrote: >> >> A general solution (solving a lot of other use cases as a side >> effect) would be >> to implement a generic color/font/format coding feature. Let users >> define ldap >> searches and assign formatting styles to those objects that match. >> Could be >> strikethrough font, font/background color, object icon, watever. >> >> In a second step, pre-defined filter/formatting sets implementing >> common useful >> scenario's (like the one Graham posted) could be delivered with >> Studio so user >> can just enable them if needed. Those delivered sets would also >> double as >> example code and templates for custom needs. > > Well, that would be only a partial solution anyway. Displaying > disabled users using a different style is not that useful if you > cannot enable or disable them. And that won't be easy to implement > unless Studio really understands how the enable/disable mechanism works. Indeed. > > However, as far as I understand, Studio is LDAP editor. It is not a > replacement for identity management system. Actualy, I do have a plugin that manages users and groups :-) I just have to contribute it to teh code base, something I may do after LDAP Con when I have a bit of more time...
> What we usually do is that we manage LDAP content from a real IDM > system. IDM can understand how the users are enabled, disabled, when > to create them, delete them, disable them, assign to groups and so on. > I do not think that Studio will ever have an ambition to do this. E.g. > there are at least three different ways how to manage groups in LDAP. > All of them are standard, but they are mutually incompatible. And > there are even more non-standard ways how to manage groups, > organizations, roles, etc. Managing content of generic LDAP directory > is really a job for quite a sophisticated system. Indeed. But there is no reason not to start thinking about adding such features to Studio :-) -- Emmanuel Lecharny Symas.com directory.apache.org
