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>I have not yet been able to get it to modify the tree yet.  I would
  23 like to move objects and remove subtrees directly in the GUI, but have
  24 not found a way to do that with LUMA yet.  So in the mean time, I use
  25 <a href="http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/">ldapvi</a> for that.</p>
  26
  27 <p>If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful
  28 in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
  29
  30 <p>Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the
  31 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gq.html">gq</a> package as a
  32 useful GUI alternative.  It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained
  33 in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze.  Unless that
  34 changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.</p>