Another idea-Re: Edgy+1 : Planning for the next Edubuntu version

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

2006/10/21, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 21.10.2006, 02:31 -0400 schrieb David Trask:
> > As schools begin to adopt things like Edubuntu, K12LTSP...etc on a large
> > scale....being able to set up multiple servers and centralized
> > authentication is a big point.  I already do this using Samba/LDAP.  I
> > have multiple K12LTSP servers and a Samba/LDAP server for all users and
> > their home directories.  This makes adding servers to the mix....a
> > cinch...as I don't have to worry about users and their data....I simply
> > point the new server to the Samba/LDAP box.  Matt Oquist and I (more Matt
> > than me) have come up with smbldap-installer which makes setting up a
> > Samba/LDAP server very easy (http://www.majen.net/smbldap) and thus gives
> > the average school IT person(s) another option for centralized
> > authentication of student accounts.  The scripts do a lot with user
> > creation and passwords as well.  You can also easily set up BDC's as well.
> >  We have it working very well in Ubuntu as well as K12LTSP and Fedora
> > Core.  In fact, I find Ubuntu server to be one of the better ways to set
> > up a Samba/LDAP server.  Anway...my point...
> >
> so lets see how we can integrate it in the default server install ;)

Much work has already been done by the skolelinux/debian-edu team with
respect to LDAP usage in classroom servers, and it could be
interesting to consider collaboration on this point.

A new software to manage the administration of the users and the
servers is being developped that could well be integrated in Edubuntu.
It is CIPUX.

see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/CipUX

The active developpers of CIPUX are in cc., as well as the debian-edu
mailing list where much of the discussion is taking place.

Further than this, I think that active collaboration between Edubuntu
and Debian-edu could only be useful to all.

Thanks,

Nicolas

(rest of message left for the case of information)

> > This may be beyond the scope of Ubuntu/Edubuntu, but one thing school
> > folks need is the ability to easily set up centralized authentication for
> > their Edubuntu network....especially for growing or large networks with
> > multiple servers.  Maybe this is something that could be offered.  It
> > could also use a pretty face....right now everything is done in the
> > CLI...although it's still quite easy...but to make it more attractive to
> > the masses...putting a "pretty clicky" interface with it...will speed
> > adoption.  Just a thought.  :-)
> its totally not beyond the scope of edubuntu, our roadmap was always to
> start at a) a single classroom level and build the best for that we can,
> then grow in size of features to support b) a whole school setup and in
> the end be suitable even for c) municipalicies.
> i think with edgy even its not perfect yet we accomplish a)
> for b) we surely need a centralized user management that works out of
> the box and integration on a workstation level as well as integration on
> the ltsp level. so lets build the base for that in mountainview  to have
> feisty fawn entering the school and not only the classroom :)
>
> ciao
>         oli
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