On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote: > I'm in the process of building a new home server, and rather > than go down the route of having each service (mail, IM, web etc) > use it's own user directory was thinking of using OpenLDAP. > > However, I can't find any easy way of setting up and configuring > OpenLDAP as a simple user directory. Does anyone know of any > good tools that will allow this? > > What I really want to be able to do, is simply do the equivalent > of "useradd fred ..." in OpenLDAP, without having to worry about > LDAP schemas and the like. I don't mind configuring the server > initially, but want the user management procedures themselves > (add/list/delete/edit) to be nice and simple. > > I'm on Gentoo, would prefer a command line interface but if it > is a GUI tool then KDE would be preferred.
There's a package called "cpu" (available in Debian) that I've used in the past for doing basic user/group administration on the command line. I also put together a couple of scripts for changing passwords (for users, and the sysadmin). Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing. ---
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