Re: lwat - user administration tool
Am Samstag, 13. Januar 2007 12:11 schrieb Patrick Winnertz:
> Hey Guys,
>
> Here are some screenshots of lwat, this is an user administration tool
> for ldap
>
> http://bzz.no/~finnarne/lwat/screenshots/
>
> It is per default installed with debian-edu on the tjener and can be
> accessed with this URL:
>
> http://tjener.intern/lwat/
>
> It would be nice if someone can test it and report the problems to the
> debian-edu mailinglist or better to the lwat development mailinglist:
>
> lwat@lists.bzzware.org
>
Hi to all.
As I anounced on #debian-edu yesterday, I opened a etch combi-tjener for
testing and invited people to come in and see for themselve what lwat can do
for us.
(If someone doesn't noticed that he may ask me today on #debian-edu for
opening the tjener once again to get a look)
There where several testers 'on board' of the system as far as I noticed ;-)
I hope that had helped some guys to better build there own mind than it can
done with screenshots.
Here I will tell now what my experiance was while testing.
First it was a little bit confusing and I had to ask on channel to get
information about how to log in, because I had no man page or info about.
Patrik Winnertz was so kind to give me the informations needed to start,
thanks.
After I got into it, the first thing was to add a new user. No problem at all
when I used the old* groupmembers from dropdown menue(there is a ldap.schema
missing which is not ready for use now), but it took me 2-3 min. of waiting
until the home of the user was created, which was irritating.
A mass import function of users was not available and the creating of machine
accounts was not filled with function yet. Every higher level administration
functionalities such as getting pupils after a year at school into the next
course or maintaining anything similar else is not available yet.
A function for deleting my new created user is missing too what makes the tool
useless at this moment at all.
At this point I gave up testing this tool, because it lacks of essential
functionality for lowest level of use.
For use in school enviroment there have to be not only a lot more functions,
there also have to be a well designed interface for pointing the admin to the
essentials.
And if lwat is scriptable I don't know. The autor should answer this please.
Greetings, Jürgen Leibner
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