On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Chris Hiestand wrote:
> I don't think writing a custom ldap client is "simple". Or, as David
> Blank-Edelman requests, perhaps you have some example code showing how simple
> it is? I have written ldap scripts in perl, python, and php - so I'm not
> asking as a newbie.
So, I should be clear, I'm not trying to get in the middle of your discussion
about user interfaces and etc.l with Quanah or express any opinion about it.
I would just love to see some good sample code for OpenLDAP server
administration published because I think it would be very helpful to everyone,
newbies and people like you and me who have scripted LDAP. I think there are a
number of reasons why scripting this stuff can be a bit daunting, especially
when it comes to server-specific administration. The Net::LDAP code Quanah
references is probably quite simple in form, it is just the details that can be
tricky to get right.
To your original point: once those details are clear, I suspect it would be
relatively straightforward to write a slapacl command/script that parsed the
ACL .conf file format and then used Net::LDAP to twiddle cn=config on a
specified server accordingly.
-- dNb
