-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It can be similar to mysql, in that the default is the CLI, though there are some very capable GUIs.
Under Ubuntu the package slapd provides the server, and ldap-utils should provide the rest. Some of the utils that will likely be of use have the prefix "ldap" in their name. ldappasswd can be used in scripts to change passwords. Basically install ldap on a box and jump in. The following link should help you to get started. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_ldap_authentication is not a bad place to start to have local user auth using LDAP. If you search howtoforge.com for ldap auth there are a ton of tutorials for various ways of using LDAP. The O'Rielly book is a little dry but through and useful. The Samba 3 by example book has some good LDAP info in it as well. Roy Souther wrote: > 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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>_ > _www.SiliconTao.com <http://www.SiliconTao.com>_ > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by _GnuPG > <http://www.gnupg.org>_. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAgxVwRXgH3rKGfMRAu/4AJ9yTvqG9k4yJ0X5kMUbXzmkEp0JXwCfac6B RCq0pmqd36NJfRBQZ2SNJP4= =bCLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
