[K12OSN] smbldap and webmin on Debian

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:45 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> I have a home installation of Debian Etch and have successfully used the
> smbldap-installer scripts.  I was never successful in getting webmin to
> work properly as far as adding/modifying users.  Does anybody have any
> success stories or advice for me? 
> 
> I think I must be missing some important settings in the "LDAP users and
> groups" module configuration.  Even if somebody could tell me "yes, I
> use smbldap and webmin on debian etch" but offer no advice, that would
> at least give me hope...
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I use it extensively and have left the setup behind for people to
maintain in clients offices as well.  It is my primary tool for
maintaining users/groups.

My personal observation is that some people expect these tools to just
work without actually having to learn/understand/use/recover ldap.

You got questions...post them up.

Personally, I think that if you haven't read 'LDAP System
Administration' by Gerald Carter, and cannot add/modify/delete using
ldapadd/ldapmodify/ldapdelete, cannot search from command line tool
ldapsearch, cannot backup & restore using command line slapcat/slapadd
has no business committing their authentication system to LDAP because
they are certain to demonstrate to their co-workers how vulnerable they
are.

Craig