Remote LDAP management

[Rick Stevens]

Justin Crabtree wrote:
> 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.

I used to use a GUI manager called GQ
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3805).  Haven't
used it in a long time, but it was pretty cool.
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