On Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:14:15 STuart Sears wrote: > Samuel Penn wrote: > >> What do you mean by a 'simple' user directory? > >> Which information would you like to store about users? > > > > By 'simple', I'm more referring to my expectation that nothing > > that I want to do is out of the ordinary and that I have no > > requirements beyond what anyone else would have in terms of > > managing users for access to typical services (mail, web, login > > etc). > > ooh I could get nitpicky there :) But I won't. > The fun with this is all about the fact that many apps use different > attributes for different bits of information.
That's half the problem - I get the feeling that a good proportion of the differences are unneeded, and only there because nobody could agree on a standard. > > Last night, I got Apache and DokuWiki talking to LDAP, with > > DokuWiki using the ACLs based off LDAP groups. I also > > discovered that Konqueror can browse the LDAP server and > > edit objects, which is kind of useful. > > Sounds good. > Which schema did you choose? users as InetOrgPerson? person organizationalPerson inetOrgPerson posixAccount Chosen based on examples I found. I haven't thought about integrating with PAM yet - it's not a priority. Thanks for the tips on Samba/CUPS -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam. Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
