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
