Op 2-11-2011 16:34, Richard L. Houston schreef: > Hello all, > > Long time lurker fist time poster. > > I am setting up a openldap server on 10.04 server but am running into > issues. > > I have the base system setup with SSL and I can access the ldap server > with out issue. I can authenticate users for 10.04 desktops with no > issue. Where I run into issue is converting the ppolice schema file to > ldif format. I have followed the docs at > https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html but I > only really want ppolicy and samba. Is there documentation and or > already converted schema's for ppolice and samba? > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide. > > On the ldap note, what I would like to know is if there is any > prepackaged and or scripts that one can run that will leave you with a > openldap system that can authenticate Windows clients and Linux clients. > A management util would be nice as well. Here is the where this comes > from. I have a few Window admin colleges that are interested in Linux as > a DC for both Win and Lin systems but keep running into the same issue. > Too much command line for there liking. Following the basics is fine > like in the link above (read cut and past), but once you run into a > glitch they are pooched. So as a result, another Win2K8 server with AD > gets installed. > > I would really like to see a simple Question/answer type script built or > something that would make it simple for this kind of admin. There are > allot of admins out there like that and we could get more Ubuntu DC > server out there if it were not too scary for them. > > If nothing exists would anyone be interested in working together on > something like that? I am not a programmer and my scripting is enuff to > get me by but I would love to give ideas, testing or what ever. > I think a web based tool for managing the DC would be a very good idea > as well. Maybe a webmin module could be built to do that. That way we > could leverage some of the already existing webmin modules. > > Thought comments would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Rich
Hi Rich. For simple management have a look at phpldapadmin. For more demanding tasks Apache Directory Studio is good. Be warned: this is a java / eclipse thing. You will need some CPU power. just my 2$c Egbert Jan, NL -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
