From 892a2af1050ca2309fa05aa795de0071eacc3be6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kakwa Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 00:35:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] better README --- README.rst | 38 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 592fc08..1a580a8 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ LdapCherry ************** -Nice and simple application to manage user and groups in multiple directory services. +Nice and simple application to manage users and groups in multiple directory services. ---- -:Doc: `ldapcherry documentation on ReadTheDoc `_ -:Dev: `ldapcherry code on GitHub `_ -:PyPI: `ldapcherry package on Pypi `_ +:Doc: `ldapcherry documentation on ReadTheDoc `_ +:Dev: `ldapcherry code on GitHub `_ +:PyPI: `ldapcherry package on Pypi `_ :License: MIT -:Author: Pierre-Francois Carpentier - copyright © 2015 +:Author: Pierre-Francois Carpentier - copyright © 2015 ---- @@ -24,28 +24,28 @@ Nice and simple application to manage user and groups in multiple directory serv Presentation **************** -LdapCherry is CherryPY application to manage users and groups in directory services. +LdapCherry is CherryPY application to manage users and groups in multiple directory services. -Applications like phpLDAPadmin tend to have some serious limitations. They are great at -managing individual attributes in an ldap directory, but exposing those raw attributes -is a bit rough, and cannot be put in everybody's hands. Further more, managing groups -can be a chore. Finally, managing multiple directories (or other any form of user databases) -is impossible (It's common to have an Active Directory and an OpenLdap directory -on most infrastructures, managing them in a unified way could be nice). Not to mention that -most of these application are quite old (and ugly). +It's main features are: -LdapCherry aims to fix that, it provides simple and nice add/modified form, roles handling -(roles are groups aggregate in LdapCherry), user self modification and search. -It can handle multiple user back-ends in a unified way, check password policy. +* manage multiple directories/databases backends in an unified way +* roles management (as in "groups of groups") +* autofill forms +* password policy +* self modification of some selected fields by normal (non admin) users +* nice bootstrap interface +* modular through pluggable auth, password policy and backend modules -LdapCherry is also highly modular, with the possibility to implement your own plugins for -the user back-ends, the authentication and the password policy. +LdapCherry is not limited to ldap, it can handle virtually any user backend (ex: SQL database, htpasswd file, etc) +through the proper pluggin (provided that it is implemented ^^). -LdapCherry also aims to be as simple as possible to deploy: no crazy dependencies, few configuration files and extensive debug logs. +LdapCherry also aims to be as simple as possible to deploy: no crazy dependencies, +few configuration files, extensive debug logs and full documentation. ************** Screenshot ************** + .. raw:: html