Directory tools for Edubuntu server

[Jordan Erickson]

Thanks David, we need more active bug reporters/commenters like you =)



David Groos wrote:
> Got it.  Thanks for leading the charge.
> David
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jordan Erickson 
> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net 
> <mailto:jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>> wrote:
>
>     David,
>
>     Please comment on the existing bug here:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/259163
>
>     It's been open for a while - I would think it'd be a very easy
>     thing to
>     fix, but I guess nobody has gotten around to taking care of it
>     yet. This
>     would help your problem - in the meantime, I've installed "KUser"
>     which
>     is a pretty well made interface for user/group management at my sites.
>     The teachers seem to like it because it looks like the old Windows NT
>     user admin tool (which they were used to before our switch).
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jordan/Lns
>
>
>     David Groos wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > I need to find a better way to manage my users.  The 'Users and
>     > Groups' app is too awkward.  With 150 users it is a long list AND it
>     > isn't even sortable by username!  When I go to edit a group, the
>     names
>     > are listed in a long horizontal line, 1 user after another,
>     separated
>     > by semicolons.
>     >
>     > Is this a use-case for LDAP?  Is there an alternative to Users
>     and Groups?
>     >
>     > Also, our school already uses an LDAP (or it may be a Windows Active
>     > Directory)--is there some way to tie into that but manage group
>     > membership at the level of my thin client network that wouldn't
>     > interfere with the school-wide setting?
>     >
>     > Thanks some more!
>     > David
>
>
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