libuser's LDAP support (was Re: LDAP Performance)

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Wed Aug 6 22:05:22 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 03:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:39, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > I also think that ldap (user management at least) should become
> > standard in RHL. It is possible to run all under ldap, but the ldap
> > management tools are missing (that's easy to fix) and the standard
> > RH user management tool should support ldap, too.
> > 
> > What is the status of RH tools with respect to that
> > (redhat-config-users, useradd)? libuser was already build against ldap
> > in RH9. Is there a chance to have more LDAP support in Cambridge?
> 
> I'm currently patching/modifying "libuser" to make it fully support
> LDAP. The latest version from RawHide works awfully: it tries to invoke
> ldap_modify_s to perform operations like adding a user or a group
> account, when in fact, it should use ldap_add_s.
> 
> Right now, "luseradd" and "lgroupadd" are working perfectly for me.
> There are still some rough edges I need to fix. They need some testing
> also, I plan to release them for testing into rhl-beta-devel mailing
> list for approval.

Do you have libuser whipped into shape now?

It would great to have functioning luser* and lgroup* utilities.

Do they support startTLS?

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs





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