[Fedora-directory-users] PAM authentication

[Thomas Mathiesen]

Rich Megginson (rmeggins at redhat.com) wrote:
> >>>1. How do I add posixAccounts in the admin web interface (eg.
> >>>http://ldap.mydomain.com:15613/clients/dsgw/bin/lang?context=dsgw)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You can't in the _web_ interface, but you can in the console.  This
> >>won't work from the Users&Groups tab in the main console window.  Open
> >>the Directory Server into which you want to add the users.  Go to the
> >>Directory tab.  With the Properties editor, you can "posix" enable an
> >>existing user or create a new user with the posix attributes.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >But the console seems to need you to run some kind of java app, and I believe
> >this needs X?
> >My server has no X installed.
> >
> >Isn't there a setting somewhere? In a clear text file (for defaults)
> >
> >
> The file that controls this UI is
> serverroot/clients/dsgw/config/display-orgperson.html.  This is a
> "template" that is parsed by the CGIs and rendered as HTML.  If you look
> at line 188 in this file you will see where it sets the objectclasses
> for the new user.  It would be easy to add the shadowAccount to this
> list - the only required attribute is "uid" which is already supplied by
> the UI.  Unfortunately, it would be more difficult to add posixAccount
> to this list because that objectclass requires cn, uidNumber, gidNumber,
> and homeDirectory, which are not part of the UI.  So those fields would
> have to be added.  I think this would be a good enhancement, to either
> add shadow and posix account support to display-orgperson.html, or
> create a new template for posix/shadow accounts.

Is anyone working on such a template?
I will not be able to do it, so I am thinking of using phpldapadmin instead.

/T