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Domenico Andreoli <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Program for Rational User Administration
System name: prua
Type: non-GNU

Description:
[ from site http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/prua/ ]

Overview

  Main purpose of this software is to really help UNIX system administrators in 
those tasks regarding users management.
  This is not only a tool, it is a library which can be used in any kind of 
program. Indeed the command line tool here provided is only a possible use of 
this library.

Some features
  * abstraction from the real method used for storing users
    and groups information
  * providing a simple and well defined interface usable to
    build from throw away scripts to full fledged tools.
    it may be used directly in the Python shell
  * user creation from multiple configurable user templates
  * modular design with plugins

Some plugins
  * prua-ldap: interface to LDAP server
  * prua-home: handler for automatic management of users\\\' home
    directories
  * prua-shell: handler gateway for shell scripts to be called
    on user processing

Other Software Required:
python
python-ldap

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