[horde] Re: Kolab administrative web interface: why not using horde?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Fabio Pietrosanti <lists at pietrosanti.it>:

> Horde will have within months completed the ldap datatree (my company
> will sponsor it) so it will work completelly without the need of a SQL
> backend.

Great news!

> I'm sure that there are a lot of good motivation to use an indipendent
> web administration interfaces but i think that horde administration
> could be easily extended to do all "user" administration stuff of Kolab.

Makes perfect sense to me.

> We could also think to keep the kolab administration interface for all
> the "infrastructure" settings, leaving on horde all other "user
> administration" stuff like "add users, add group, add alias, add
> addressbook, add administrator, set permission", etc, etc

Either way - if you have the framework for talking to the LDAP server 
in Horde, might as well use it. The more infrastructure stuff might be 
better written as a seperate Horde app (a kolabadmin app), since it's 
not as likely to be applicable to other backends. There's also Vilma, 
for virtual domain administration (I think - Jason? <g>). But it seems 
to make sense to me to use Horde for it. Though I'm biased. :)

> What's the Kolab and Horde developers opinion on this subject?

Sure. :)

-chuck

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