I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Ev
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Question
I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Everything was going great, but storage became an issue. I then moved /home to an NFS mount which solved the immediate problem.
Months later, I'm regretting this. The company is extremely disorganized with high turnover, people never stay at the same desk for long and now I have 12 machines that anyone needs to access at any given time. This gets crazy with conflicting UID/GID's as well.
I'd like to just use LDAP and make the problem go away. The issue is, they want to be self sufficient, so I need some (easy) way for the office administrator to manage users. Preferably something GUI driven and simple/intuitive to use.
What are my options?
Explanation / Answer
The different eBox modules are split into different packages, allowing you to only install those necessary. One way to view the available packages is to enter the following from a terminal:
apt-cache rdepends ebox | uniq
To install the ebox package, which contains the default modules, enter the following:
sudo apt-get install ebox