[Sugar-devel] Sugar-Server enhancement

[Tony Anderson]

The operative code on the school server is /usr/libexec/create_user. 
What Manash describes
is apparently using the db setup by idmgr to list the registered 
laptops. I don't think you will
break compatibility.

What I hope we can look at is implementing LDAP as a central 
authentication for all of the services which
require a user name, password. Of the top of my head - Moodle, Khan 
Academy Lite, OwnCloud, and Elgg.

My brief experience with OwnCloud is that it is a shell requiring a lot 
of configuration. I would be interested if TK has
actually deployed it and, if so, how he uses it. I don't know of any one 
else who is using it at the moment.

Tony

On 04/16/2016 10:05 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
>
>> On April 15, 2016 at 6:56 PM Manash Raja <mpdmanash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> @Jerry,
>> I haven't modified anything for this feature on the server side. I found
>> that it uses both idmgr and xs-authserver. But the 5000 port is used by
>> xs-authserver to display a list of registered laptops. I didn't enable it
>> myself, it was there. All I did was to setup my server according to the
>> instructions and enabled the "XO register" feature from the admin page.
>>
> I'm concerned with backwards compatibility, the original 'schoolserver'(XS)
> based on CentOS-6 doesn't offer the xs-authserver service, hence why I
> mentioned it. I would not want to break a deployment where the older server
> version is used.
>
>   
>> @Tony,
>> Can you tell me how ownCloud is supported by XSCE? I saw it in the
>> services
>> ready to be enabled. So can we not move the storage location of
>> /library/user/<some_id> inside or account based user directories to the
>> cloud storage locations.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> The ownCloud service is not enabled out of the box, same as the
> 'xo-services'. You can enable it and play around, figure out how and where
> the users' data is stored. Either idmgr or ownCloud could be altered to
> suit the need. Here it would be safe to rely on xs-authserver's information
> as there is no existing implementation of owncloud in previous releases of
> the server software. I can help push the server-side PR's through.
>
>
> Jerry
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