Remote LDAP management

[Justin Crabtree]

Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> 
>> On 23:23 Jan 26, 2005 Maxim Eremeev <maxim_eremeev at umail.ru> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I think I'll have to try this one (though, the last time I used
>>> Webmin it just ruined my samba - it's still much safer to do
>>> everything through configs, but it's just a real pain to make an
>>> address book through ldifs).
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I wrote a couple of Perl/CGI scripts and manage my LDAP address book 
>> using
>> a browser. The scripts use temporary LDIF files and call the ldapadd,
>> ldapmod, and ldapdelete scripts that ship with OpenLDAP. It's a 
>> kludge, but
>> it works.
>>
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> OK, it's time for me to start learning Perl, I suppose :)) 
> Unfortunately, it's still a long way to go. Still thanks a lot for the 
> answer.
> Regards,
> Maxim
> 

I would highly recommend it if you are wanting to manage a LDAP server. 
  I have been managing a LDAP server with approx 15K accounts using the 
Net::LDAP module for perl and I can attest that it is a lot easier than 
doing it through the system commands and ldif files.

-- 
Justin Crabtree
Java Programmer
Ozarks Technical Community College
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