Hi Timo,
you don't need to do a checksum or anything, ldap has a 'compare'
feature that most (all?) ldap directories use to allow you to compare
a password with an existing password; it's used for quick user
authentication when you don't want to log a user in (e.g. radius
servers yada yada).
you could code it as an extension to the current user password
editor; a 'compare' button that ran the check...
Re the quick search filter; I think we used to have something
like that, but most users found it too complicated :-). I guess we
could think about making it an option in later versions, in the
meantime you're stuck with the text option in the search filter :-).
Re the 'go to DN' functionality; that's not a bad notion. It's
easy to bookmark an existing DN and move to it later, but there's no
way of quickly getting to a particular DN. One method would be to
extend the HTML editor to allow simple 'ldap URLs' , another might be
to have a 'go to' function in a menu somewhere... good idea!
- Chris
On 19/01/2006, at 6:43 PM, Timo Benk wrote:
Hi,
I haven't come across this feature before - do you mean that it
allows you
to 'compare' a given password with an existing password? That
sounds like
an interesting idea; can you do it right now with a search of 'base
object'
and a 'userPassword' equals '<your password here>'? If you're
client side
encrypting the password, you'd have to write your own code; maybe
extend
userpasswordeditor? Is it something you do very often?
Not that often, but if you need that feature because someone says
his password is not
working, you can do a quick check to verify his password.
Maybe i will write a pice of code, not sure how difficult that will
be, but i think
it should be quite straight-forward. Calculate the checksum of the
given password
and compare the result with the checksum in the ldap tree. If they
are equal, the
password is verified.
- another quick filter where you can put RFC 2254 compatible search
strings
Is there a problem with the 'text filter'option in the search
dialogue?
:-) Yes, it is not a quick-filter. I miss this option in the
quickfilter bar, just
give the RC2254 search string in the quick filter bar, hit enter,
and there are your
results. Of course that is possible with the search dialog, but it
would be a nice addon
to the quick-filter bar. A few lesser clicks to make:-)
- a 'find dn' option in the context menu, that locates a dn given
in an
attribute,
or, when the dn is not found, prints an informational
messages, that
the dn could
not be found
sorry, I don't understand :-)! If you want to find an entry by an
attribute
of the dn, why not just search for it normally?
Yes, that is right. But here is an example:
dn: cn=FunctionalUser,ou=groups,o=somewhere.com
uniquemember: uid=XXX,ou=people,o=somewhere.com
The group FunctionalUser has one uniquemember, now i would to
verify that
this member really exists in the people tree. Again, i can use the
search
dialog, but that are quite some clicks i have to do. It would be
easier
if there is a function that searches this dn and, if it is
successful, jumps
into the results window and shows that user.
That is a task i have to do quite often.
Regards,
-timo
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