Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Assistance required with kit for Nov meet

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Ed Beckmann has kindly offered and since he's 10mins away that saves you a trip. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 21:22:05 +0100 (+0100), Ian Brazier wrote: Hi Adrian, I'll do it if no one closer volunteers. Ian On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:12 +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: I normally look after

[Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Penn
Hi all, 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

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Hugo Mills
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

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:33:06 Hugo Mills wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote: 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? There's a

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23:14 +0100 (+0100), Samuel Penn wrote: 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

Re: [Hampshire] Unscrupulous salesmen...

2009-10-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:42:04 +0100 Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hello Tim, Hmmm, theft of IPR as well? I agree that the GPL allows you to resell Yes, you're right, of course. I was inexplicit. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is /

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Dennis
Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:23:14 +0100 (+0100), Samuel Penn wrote: 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,

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 25 October 2009 16:07:14 Adrian Bridgett wrote: I normally use phpldapadmin (or ldapvi for more global things). Okay, I may have a look at that as well. TBH I think running LDAP at home is generally more hassle than it's worth. Okay, so I do run LDAP at home, but that's since I use

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:24:50 + (+), Chris Dennis wrote: Is there anything else that will do a simple address book / contacts list that Thunderbird clients can share? Google? Seems to be best way to do things these days. I've found Thunderbird's support for LDAP (secured by TLS in

Re: [Hampshire] Easy user management in LDAP

2009-10-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:43:16 +, adr...@smop.co.uk said: Writing was also unsupported last I checked. There are very, very few mail programs (MUAs) that support writing to LDAP, although most support reading. One that does support writing is Claws Mail, which might be worth looking at if

[Hampshire] wifi point wanted

2009-10-25 Thread Edward Beckmann
Hi Does anyone who has bought a flash new wireless system have a basic old access point they don't want? I could occasionally use it at home - speed is not critical so maybe the chance to get rid of an old steam-driven box to a grateful scrounger. Many thanks Ed -- Please post to: