Re: skolelinux and ubuntu and schooltool
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:49:33 -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:44:52 +0100, Nicolas Pettiaux (AEL)
> <nicolas.pettiaux@ael.be> wrote:
> >
> > What are the possible collaborations, if any, between SkoleLinux and
> > ubuntulinux and schooltool, both "products" financially supported by Mark
> > Shuttleworth, the first one based on a recent debian and the other one
> > aiming at creating a rather comprehensive tool to help with the management
> > of schools ?
>
> I would like to see user, group and authentication information
> coordinated between a SchoolTool instance and the underlying
> Linux system. This probably mostly means LDAP. Also being able
> to export to Cerebrum if that is going to be important in SkoleLinux.
>
> It will be a big advantage to us if school sys admins can easily
> test at SchoolTool without having to manually create logins and passwords
> for their teachers and students.
that would indeed be a great idea.
Nicolas
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Nicolas Pettiaux
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