[OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

[Hans J. Albertsson]

And please just ignore my raving and ranting below.

In the clear light of a fresh and crispy morning it all fell into place, 
and I now know how to set up individual admin access rights, set up to 
use UTF-8, edit headers, labels, info messages and so on and so forth.
One shouldn't keep at it after one's eyes start to bleed...
It IS a reasonable tool for a group of people of varying degrees of 
computer awareness remotely managing a set of servers.

Now for an intelligent Q:Is there anything like a webmin zfs management 
module somewhere?
Something that could handle shares, set up new raids, and do accurate 
space usage and snapshot reports..


On 2012-01-17 03:19, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:26:06 +0100
> From: "Hans J. Albertsson"<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se>
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> 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.