On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped > me set it up. I started getting used to it, especially apt, because I've > been using RedHat since I started using Linux. > > About a year ago, my local LUG set up a small weekly newspaper with > Linux. The workstations are dual boot W98/RedHat 7.3 (don't ask, long > story), the server is Debian (named debbie). Buddy set it up. He is > very, very good, but had to do some customization (maybe a lot). After > doing updates, upgrades, and dist-upgrades on the lab test system with > no apparent ill effects, I thought it was time to do the same to the > newspapers server. In the process I broke 'adduser'. So far, the > solution appears to involve LDAP. None of us seems to have much > experience with that. Buddy has since moved and isn't responding to emails. > > The newspaper has been working on a series of articles about the > switchover from Windoze to Linux. Right now they're not very happy with > Debian. Is there anyone who offers paid, secure support for Debian? > Donation to the Debian project is also acceptable. Remote access can be > provided. > > I don't know if this is the correct thing to do, but I'm totally lost > and don't know what else to do. I haven't included any specifics because > I don't know what would be needed or if this list is the right place to > post this request. > > Thanks, > Jim
Jim, There is a Debian package call cpu which can do adduser type of operations using a LDAP backend. Check out apt-cache show cpu. For example to add a user to a LDAP system, you can do something like this as superuser (root): #> cpu-useradd testuser John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
