Userconfig: A KCModule for users and groups configuration

[Romain Perier]

Le 05/05/2011 03:06, Gary Greene a écrit :
> On 3 May 2011, at 10:47 AM, Romain Perier wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a kubuntu contributor, we develop userconfig, a kcmodule for users
>> and groups configuration. Basically, It has almost the same features than kuser,
>> except it's graphically integrated into systemsettings and no longer runs as root (not official yet
>> but I write a patch which works like a charm). Since kuser is not maintained anymore and the kdeadmin maintainer connot be contacted, I thought it was a good idea to send an email here.
>> I have also contacted each kdeadmin authors (of each subproject). I propose to move userconfig in kdeadmin as an alternative of kuser.
>>
>> userconfig is written in python, see https://code.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/guidance/userconfig-kde4
>> for more details.
>>
>> would you be interested ?
>>
> Does it allow for RFC 2307 based LDAP users? Loosing that feature of KUser would be a downside for me, as UNIX is far more than local shadow users.
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There is a LDAP backend, still experimental but we plan to finish it for 
oneiric (the next ubuntu release).
We also plan to write a kauth helper (in c++ since it's not possible yet 
in python).
Don't worry it will have the same features than kuser ;)