[Kolab-devel] Kolab, LDAP, and Unix acounts

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Aleyandre,

welcome on the list.


On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:15, Alexandre Boeglin wrote:
> Thus, having the Kolab and Unix accounts (using pam-ldap) synchronized in
> LDAP would really help me.
>
> So, i'd like to add some features to Kolab's web interface :
>
> - When an user is created, it curently inherits from the objectClass
> "inetOrgPerson" (for Kolab). I want to make it inherit also from
> "posixAccount", "shadowAccount" (for Unix accounts) and maybe from
> "sambaSamAccount" (for Samba).
>
> - There is no groups (at least in Kolab1). I would like to add the ability
> in the interface to manage groups (add/remove groups, add/remove users in
> groups), using the objectClass "posixGroup" for the moment, buy I think it
> could integrate with group ACL i've read about in Proko2 announce.
>
> Now, my questions are :
>
> - Is someone already working on this?

Not that I am aware of for Samba and the account management.
Adding this to the schema sounds like an LDAP exercise to me.
Kolab2 will have some sort of groups at least for distribution lists and ACLs. 
I assume you have read the Kolab2 concept draft in CVS?

> - Does someone else think that this could be usefull? 

Yes there are wishes for it.

> And is there any
> chance for it to be integrated into Kolab one day? (else, it would be far
> easier for me to write a separate interface than to sync my changes again
> and again with Kolab's interface)

There is chance for this.
Currently the most active Kolab people are from the Proko2 contract,
we could use more help with points that are not directly related to Proko2,
but help Kolab in other ways. It is important that this code is stable
and maintained, though. If we accept changes that we cannot support
for a while it would be bad for Kolab IMO.

> - I tried to read the discussions about the changes in CVS from the mailing
> list archives, but I got a bit lost... Is "server" still the active module?

AFAIK yes.

> - I also read that the web interface were to be rewritten for Kolab2, is
> its status available somewhere?

Steffen should be able to give it to us..
I saw it working already.
Check out the development packages if you like:
	http://ftp.kolab.org/kolab/server/development/
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