[OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Just to be clearer:

I need a web based or otherwise remote management tool.

There should be a "ordinary user personal management part" and a system 
administrator part, and the latter should ideally be configurable for 
different admin roles.

usermin combined with webmin 1.51 from the openindiana repository mostly 
fit the bill.

A few problems exist, however:

I can't get webmin to use utf-8. Can anyone suggest a solution?
I found this because the gnome user and group manager applet backend 
script failed with "improper UTF-8" after adding a user with a swedish 
full name.

I can see no well-structured way to configure roles, or even harden the 
interface against catastrophic mistakes.
Again: can anyone suggest a way to run several roles in parallell, maybe 
a way to enable different combinations of modules for different admin users.
Or maybe you can suggest a different approach to the problem?


The webmin home page does supply a solaris package, but that is no 
better for utf-8, it seems, and has a few oddities and quirks that make 
for an uncomfortable experience.


On 2012-01-13 19:55, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:06:31 +0100
> From: "Hans J. Albertsson"<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se>
> To:openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
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> I'm looking for some kind of user/system/services management tools that
> I could trust novices and Microsoft people to cope with..
>
> Some working webmin-like system would be nice, but the current webmin
> fails consistently on my system.
>
> I kind of liked smc, but that's not available, is it?
>