Due to some request (see Mandrakeforum article) and the fact that I want to learn a bit of perl, I am looking at making a wizard for setting up OpenLDAP.
At present, I am just aiming at the basics: 1)Setup of basic openldap config stuff (basedn, rootdn and rootpw) using all reasonable schemas (not input avialable on schemas) 2)Importing users from passwd/NIS. Since I don't use NIS, someone who does should probably test it if I am going to enable it. This will just replace some of the configs in the openldap-migration scripts (some config file is there, which allows you to set the required values before importing). It will probably only be non-system users (ie uid>=500), no selections will be possible. I think only group and passwd should be imported, hosts, services, protocols are problematic (conflicts crop up easily), and I don't think LDAP is the right way to do those .. 3)Setting up master/slave servers Any comments? Any volunteers? Any reccomendations on configs? (anyone else got experience with slurpd replication? we have it going quite well on about 4 slaves, and seems reliable enough, though I have seen some people voicing concerns about openldap replication). So far, it doesn't look too difficult, so if it goes well I may well overhaul the samba one (maybe even add ldap support for when samba3-final arrives). Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
