On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:55:43AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote (wyy sez):
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 at 20:43, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> > don't worry man. you can do it.
> 
> Actually, I was probably too cruel with myself. I've "done" it to the
> point where user authentication is already off an LDAP database which is
> also hooked up to Horde IMP for a central email directory. However, I
> haven't been able to write my own scripts to handle adduser and deluser
> functions, so I do these half manually by editting a template LDIF I have,
> and half with a bash script to do what my adduser.local did.
> 
> I checked out directory-administrator out and it looks cool. It has a
> Debian package, too, but the package depends on a version of OpenLDAP
> that's not yet out (or at least not yet in Debian/Unstable) so I can't
> check it out yet.
> 
> I also haven't figured out how to handle those "no-system-account" mail
> setups. They're intriguing, although I don't need them yet. But maybe
> should be useful for a friends.leathercollection.ph suki domain. Hahaha.
>
what do you mean that non-system mail accounts? are these the ones with only
email and no system user? if that is the case, this is how my setup is running.
because only my mail servers (SMTP-postfix and POP/IMAP-cyrus/courier) are
authenticating via LDAP. my systems users are still in the crummy /etc/passwd.
hehehe.
 
> > as for me, i am happiliy maintaining a student directory (LDAP of
> > course). however, i will wait a while until openldap kinda stabilizes. i
> > got burnt when they released 3.x and made an uber lot of changes.
> > arghhhh!
> 
> Life, oh life. Hahaha!!! BTW, what do you use to handle your LDAP
> modifications? Or did you write some script (python or PHP or perl) to do
> that for you?
> 
i have perl scripts. wanna copies? i wrote this in the heat of battle. it
was twelve midnight and the next day was the first day of student registration.
the web interface (sacha and jess) was ready but there was not backup command
line way of doing things. thus, i wrote dem dam perl scripts.

when i migrated to the newer version of LDAP i had to rewrite the scripts for
the new version (grumble grumble). however, the new rewrite uses a perl 
module already (Net-LDAP i think). i also use Cyrus-Admin perl module to
maintain cyrus mailboxes. for courier mailboxes, these are in the filesystem
thus there is no need for a perl module.

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