Making LDAP easier to use
Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Thu May 25 09:51:54 UTC 2006
> Unfortunately, it's not like you can write a couple of
> new applications and you're done. It would take some
> commitment by a distribution such as Fedora to bring the
> small bits together.
Right now, it requires a lot of integration work, but works pretty well.
> Most tools are there already, but not designed or tested
> to work well together. And it's because very few people
> go through the pain of setting up an LDAP-based LAN.
I have set up some LDAP-based LAN's and I think that, although not
straightforward as installing Linux and clicking Next, Next, Next,
i'ts not as difficult as it could seem.
> Creating users in LDAP is hard. The usual tools such as
> useradd and system-config-users should be teached how to do it.
> I still couldn't figure out how to change the posixAccount
> password in LDAP without using smbpasswd.
You can use "libuser", which supports several backends, being LDAP on
of then. I'm using
luseradd/lusermod/luserdel/lgroupadd/lgroupdel/lgroupmod from libuser
to manage my LDAP users and its work very well.
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