Re: What next? LDAP

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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:53 PM -0400 David Hollis
> <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Now that the directory server is starting to trickle out, I'd love to
>> see that incorporated with some form of administration tool.  I've done
>> a bunch of LDAP setups in recent months and can now finally manage it
>> from command line/LDIFs but it really doesn't have to be that tough to
>> get a simple directory setup.  The great part about it is that once it's
>> setup, it can do quite a bit and even act as an Active Directory domain
>> controller which is really a beautiful thing.
> 
> 
> Agreed. I'm trying to get up to speed on deploying OpenLDAP together
> with the Samba schema to get single sign-on and a global address book,
> but it's been tough marshaling all the HOWTO's to figure out what's
> really required. I went down a wrong path using the PADL scripts bundled
> with OpenLDAP (because I failed to select the "enhanced" schema in the
> common config file) and they also fail badly on the /etc/services file
> due to the presence of Apple protocols. So far the best information for
> initial setup seems to be in the HOWTO's at <http://samba.idealx.org/>,
> but I'm still working through it to understand how to migrate my
> existing setup.
> 
> I'd recommend that anyone starting out get the smbtools from idealx and
> also get phpldapadmin set up on Apache to maintain the thing and get a
> more visual understanding of how things are organized. Hopefully
> volunteers will step forward to bring these into Extras.

The smbldap-tools scripts are already being distributed with samba
Unfortunately the scripts are being packaged as documentation by Red-Hat:

# rpm -ql samba | grep smbldap-tools
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/CONTRIBUTORS
...
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupadd
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupdel
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupmod
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupshow
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-passwd
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-populate
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-useradd
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-userdel
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-userinfo
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-usermod
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-usershow
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap.conf
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap_bind.conf
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap_tools.pm


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