Patrick Winnertz: cipux as admintool for DebianEdu - a second test
Mh… I tested today again cipux, a admintool which one of the two tools which will replace our(Debian-edu) old admintool wlus .
I started last week to test it and most of the errors I announced last week are fixed.
But here the new report:
The CipUX team fixed many issues I mentioned the last time… but there are still very hugh errors for productive software :S
During the installation an the run of cipux_setup -s I recognised an error in the script: it uses wrong options for an other subinstallation script of cipux.
The cookie handling is mostly fixed but in some scripts I still got this nice picture.. Apparently there are still hugh errors in the cookie handling.
Furthermore it was not possible to edit the user data (e.g. full name, …. ) in the useradmin, it allows only to add users, resetting the passwords and deleting them. I think this is not enough for an admintool as we need it in debian-edu as a replacement for webmin/wlus. While searching for editing the users data I clicked on “Userselfadmin” and … got a error 404.. this script does not exist. So here is also no possibility to change the user details. I noticed something strange… there are many groups for users, e.g: assistant, teacher, tutor, … but I don’t find an group for students, quite strange. I asked upstream but until one week I got no answer. :S
Because I was a bit frustrated I want to have a look on one of the other features of cipux.. the internetadmin. It should be possible to forbid a user or a complete group the internet access…this is the theorie. When I clicked on the internetadmin-button I got the cookie error mentioned above. Mh… so it is not possible to forbid your pupils to go into the internet. :S Another important feature we need for DebianEdu.
Okay… the other things works. ;-)
As a conclusion:
Upstream works hard on fixing the errors I found last time, but there are still hugh errors which can be found by testing the software a bit. Atm I would suggest them to work on it and don’t upload to Debian-Edu since I think many features they have in theory doesn’t work properly and are not well tested.
