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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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