I am thinking of switching my network servers over to LDAP authentication, it looks to be very straight forward. My issue is that a lot of scripts I have written to automate things do so by doing simple parsing of the /etc/passwd & shadow files and this will break them. So I am trying to find other ways to extract information about a user, finger gets most of it but I also need some way to get a users encrypted password. I have a script that temporarily replaces a users password by getting the encrypted password, changes the users password then replaces it with the original encrypted one. How can I do this with LDAP?
I have not installed LDAP yet. What command line tools are available to do direct manipulation of the data from inside scripts? I was looking at the WebMin source to edit user accounts and it looks like this also gets the users encrypted password by grepping the /etc/shadow file. Does switching to LDAP break features in WebMin? Royce Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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