blog/data/2010-06-28-ldap-gui.txt

   1 Title: LUMA, a very nice LDAP GUI
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian edu, nuug, ldap
   3 Date: 2010-06-28 00:30
   4
   5 <p>The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP
   6 directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI
   7 tool to browse the LDAP tree.  The only one I was able to find in
   8 Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is
   9 <a href="http://luma.sourceforge.net/">LUMA</a>, which has proved to
  10 be a great tool to get a overview of the current LDAP directory
  11 populated by default in Skolelinux.  Thanks to it, I have been able to
  12 find empty and obsolete subtrees, misplaced objects and duplicate
  13 objects.  It will be installed by default in Debian/Squeeze.  If you
  14 are working with LDAP, give it a go. :)</p>
  15
  16 <p>I did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to
  17 the BTS yet.  There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do
  18 not show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the
  19 Debian submenu in KDE.  I hope that can be fixed before Squeeze is
  20 released.</p>
  21
  22 <p>If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful
  23 in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>