On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, vinu upadhya <vinu1.upad...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thank you for the reply. > > Is the problem related to webmin tool that I am using? My organization is > having 4 ldap servers located at 4 different locations with slurpd.conf file > configured in all the 4. So as soon as any new users/groups are created,it > is replicating in all the 4 locations however only the problem is I can't > able to add any users to any particular group. Ldap servers are configured > on Opensuse 10.3 and from past one and half years they didn't gave any such > problems however from past one week I am facing this major problem. there > are some 100 users in the server,created earlier. From past one week as soon > as new users are created they cant be added to the respective group.Also > many applications related to financial,hr,development etc are mapped to > particular group and without adding the users to respective group they cant > able to work. > > Can you also tell me after creating a user using ldapadd command, how to > add the user to group? > > Thank you again > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Dustin Puryear > <dpury...@puryear-it.com>wrote: > >> I'm curious: How many users do you have? >> >> Adam is right that you can use PhpLdapAdmin for this. It works well for >> small user populations. I wouldn't use it for large user populations of >> course, but that goes without saying. >> >> --- >> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ >> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On >> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies >> >> Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bounce-ldap-3356...@listserver.itd.umich.edu >> [mailto:bounce-ldap-3356...@listserver.itd.umich.edu] On Behalf Of >> Vinayak >> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:46 AM >> To: ldap@listserver.itd.umich.edu >> Subject: [ldap] LDAP Usersand Groups >> >> Hi >> I am very new to this ldap concept also feeling very much difficulty in >> LDAP >> administration. Right now I am facing a problem of adding the users >> created on LDAP server to particular group. I know that the entire LDAP >> database is located under /var/lib/ldap directory. Now my doubt is, >> generally in linux when we create a user,it will be recorded under >> /etc/passwd,/etc/group and /etc/shadow files and we can easily find the >> user details in these file.Is there any way to determine, in LDAP >> server,to which group the particular user belongs to? also how to >> manually >> access the ldap database? >> How to troubleshoot the problem of adding particular user to particular >> group. >> I am using Webmin tool for creating ldap users/groups. This problem is >> severely affecting my organizations work. >> >> Thank you so much >> >> >
