On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 09:22, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:05:23AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > Get used to writing and running Net::LDAP perl scripts. Then it's a > > simple matter of parsing the text dump from your student admin system. > > > > My site is just Samba+LDAP, plus a lot of local scripts. > > > > If generating passwords for your students, the Crypt::SmbHash module is > > very useful. > > > > Andrew Bartlett > > Is LDAP a must in this example? Wouldn't it be just as easy to create > local accounts?
LDAP scares people. However, once you understand it, you realise how many things 'speak' ldap, and when you get ideas about setting up a BDC, then it becomes a 'must'. (The other 'solutions' you might consider - particularly rsync - simply don't work). I find LDAP allows me to easily add information about web quotas, for example. (I hope to release my particular variant on this problem space shortly) Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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