LDAP accounts
20 Apr 2010Trying to figure out how to add a bunch (well, 6) of LDAP user accounts. So far:
ldapuseradd: neat; wish there was a dry-run mode; wish the hooks supported arbitrary scripts
Python: neat; good to learn Python; have to avoid going down the rabbit hole of classes (Python made OOP clear to me in a way it hasn't before, and now everything looks like a nail)
phpLDAPadmin: arghh; nooooo; can't script
Realistically this won't happen very often, so perhaps I should just go ahead and use the damn browser to do this. But it kinda hurts me a little inside when I do.
2 Comments
From: Michael Lambert
20 April 2010 21:18:31
I tend to prefer scriptable tools, too, but there is no better tool for minor LDAP work than Apache Directory Studio. Born out of the Apache Directory Server project, it offers configuration tools specific to that DS but also a generic LDAP browser that is the best of any of the open source tools that I've tried (which is most, if not all, of them). For example, you can drag and drop entries between locations (caveat: if your DS supports the LDAP "move" operation), create a new entry based on an existing object, browse the server's schema and ACLs, etc.
http://directory.apache.org/studio/
Note: when setting up the configuration for your DS, choose a new "connection," not "server." Connections refer to the generic LDAP servers that can be viewed in the LDAP browser while a "server" refers to Apache DS instances.
From: Saint Aardvark
20 April 2010 21:25:47
Wow...I never knew that existed. Thanks very much!
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