[Kolab-devel] kolab_setup (part of Kolab bootstrap rewrite)

[Martin Konold]

Am Dienstag, 23. März 2004 12:08 schrieb Bo Thorsen:

Hi Bo,

> Generally: What is the difference between the administrator and the
> manager? Is it a bug to have both? Why are there two?

Please have a look at:

Description Architecture:	
http://kroupware.kde.org/administration-1.0-html/c24.html

Description of Maintainer:
	http://kroupware.kde.org/administration-1.0-html/x122.html
"a maintainer account can administer all user related settings on the server 
(except editing the maintainer and administrator groups). So special accounts 
can be given to people who are responsible to keep the users data up to date 
on the Kolab server. [...] Also a users name can be changed by the 
maintainer. Note the difference between the name of a user and his uid and 
E-Mail address which can not be changed in the web interface. A maintainer 
can additionally choose if the users data should be made available to the 
public addressbook."

Description of Administrator:
	http://kroupware.kde.org/administration-1.0-html/x181.html
"Apart from the actions the maintainer group can perform, the administrator 
group can also administer basic server settings. The hostname and the domain 
name of the E-Mail domain can be set in the server menue. Note that changes 
within those settings directly affect the mail transport system and can 
result in delivery problems of E-Mails. [...] The administration of the two 
groups administrator and maintainer is possible from within the menues 
Administrator or Maintainer. Accounts within the groups can be created or 
removed. As those accounts do not possess own E-Mail addresses only few 
information is needed to specify an account. These credentials are first and 
last name, a password an an uid. [...] Although the Kolab server has the 
ability to interoperate with legacy clients this behaviour can be turned off. 
The preferred services of the Kolab server are: POP3S, IMAPS, SIEVE and 
HTTPS. In legacy mode the services POP3, IMAP, FTP and HTTP are also 
supported. Within the menue services of the web interface an administrator 
can disable some or all of the legacy services."

Last but not least there is the manager account. In contrast to the above 
groups (Maintainers and Adminitrators) there is only a single manager. The 
manager can be considerer to be comparable to the root user on unix systems.
The manager account is not meant to be administered via the webgui. 

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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