Re: WLUS 1.2-27
torsdag 22. april 2004, 17:31, skrev Ralf:
> Last time I tried it, there were some, say, flaws, that made us going
> back to plain webmin (2 weeks ago!) By then, it was not possible to
> select the usernames after one's own taste, and one had to use an
> administrator account different from root, to name only two obsticles
> I remember of.
You can select your own user-names through the create-users-from-file
option when pressing "create user(s)"-button. The file-format is easy
to handle.
There are many reasons behind limiting the posibility to make your own
user-names. The main reason is automation. The teacher at a school has
2-4 hours a week to support and operate a Skolelinux-network with 320
pupils and teachers. With 150-200 hours a year to operate 150-1200 user
accounts, they don't need more complexity. They realy need less, or no
complexity at all.
Bear in mind that the ICT-person at a school have no means to get more
time to operate the system. Budget cuts in public sector in Norway are
huge, and the last 2 years the headmasters has reduced the number of
teachers with 15-20%. To handle a deficit on 157.004.830 EURO the
planed reductionis about 2500-4000 employees in public sector this
year.
There is arround 3200 schools in Norway, and the schools will be
affected from even more budget cuts. The Ministry of Education and
Research does also have a plan to reduce the numbers of teachers in
Norwegian education. Also the teachers got a historical increase in
wages 2-3 years ago on the average of 6038 EURO for every teacher. The
budget cuts, the political decision to reduce the amount of teachers,
and the historical increase in teachers wages 2-3 years ago has an
tremendous effect on how to operate computer-systems in the schools.
All this is happening when the Ministry expects that every pupil shall
do their exams with Internet and ICT-tools:
http://odin.dep.no/ufd/engelsk/publ/veiledninger/014081-990077/index-dok000-b-n-a.html
The WLUS is ment to be used for teachers with no privous experience with
LDAP or Active Directory. This application is made for managing
hundreds or thousends of users in a medium sized or large nettwork.
It's distributed, and handles a plug-and-play extension of a
Skolelinux-nettwork:
http://developer.skolelinux.no/arkitektur/arkitektur.html.en
Reports from a lot of schools that expands it's network is that the
Webmin-LDAP-Simple (WLS) works, and get the job done. The
Webmin-LDAP-User-Simple (WLUS) will work even better :-). This
application is our fourth try to get this right. We have developed it
with guidelines from a lot of teachers and ICT-operators. WLS is in use
in over 100 schools in Norway.
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2003_NITH_brukeradmin/sluttfase/brukermanual.htm
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2003_NITH_brukeradmin/utdypningsfase/aktivitetsdiagram.html
The ACL-functionality (Access Control List) is not on place for
syncronizing users privilege with Webmin and Skolelinux. To handle the
3 different password in UNIX (on the different servers), Webmin and
LDAP, you have to follow the test-case 006 (follow the link [1]). Some
of this is explained in the new day-to-day opration guide for
Skolelinux from Klaus Ade (it's still in Norwegian[2]):
[1] http://developer.skolelinux.no/testing/wlus/006_admin_passwd.txt
[2] http://developer.skolelinux.no/~klaus/notater/c2054.html
So to be short. No, we want change the functionality in WLUS. But you
can do it yourself. Skolelinux is a do-o-cratic managed project were
they who wants something, can do their changes as they like. You have
the freedom to do it your self :-).
Our goal is to help over 100 schools that voluntarly using Skolelinux.
The respons from the ICT-staf is to _reduce_ complexity as much as
posible. Feedback from a lot of people shows us that we are on the
right track.
http://www.skolelinux.no/testskoler/map/skolelinux-norway.png
- Knut Yrvin
The project manager Skolelinux Norway
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