[debian-edu-commits] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted" by KnutYrvin

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  == User Management with GOsa² ==
  
  First, click on "Users" in the left navigation menu. The right side of the screen will change to show a table with department folders for "Students" and "Teachers" and the account of the GOsa² Super-Administrator (the first created user). Above this table you can see a field called ''Base'' that allows you to navigate through your tree structure (move your mouse over that area and a drop-down menu will appear) and to select a base folder for your intended operations (e.g. adding a new user). 
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+ === Fixing possible GOsa² error ===
+ 
+ After investigating further it seems to be that the mechanism using encrypted passwords in gosa.conf is failing now.
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+ (As far as I know the random cleartext password generated during setup  is encrypted using gosa-encrypt-passwords and a file gosa.secrets is generated to let apache2 cope with the encrypted passwords.)
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+ This seems to work getting an upgraded Wheezy main-server working again (no need to generate a new gosa.conf). This has to be done as root user. 
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+  1. cat /dev/null > /etc/gosa/gosa.secrets
+  1. take the random cleartext password from gosa.conf.orig and put it instead of the encrypted long one into gosa.conf (actually twice: adminPassword and snapshotAdminPassword). You can use sudo pico gosa.conf 
+  1. be sure to add write access with 'chmod a+r /etc/gosa/gosa.secrets /etc/gosa/gosa.conf'
+  1. restart apache2
  
  === Adding users ===