[Ldap-users-devel] TODO/wish list

[Wil C. <wc...@na...>]

Looking over the feature set and TODO list on the web site, I see a
few things that would be really nice to have.  I've d/l'd an older
version and will be getting the CVS shortly, but while I've been
meaning to do some LDAP programming, I haven't (and I haven't done
Perl in quite some time...).

Here are some things I'd like to see (some of which aren't important
for me immediately, but could help make this really killer):

 o Remote creation of home directories.  I haven't delved into
 the Webmin API yet, but doesn't it have an internal protocol for
 communicating with other webmin servers?  I see that it creates
 home directories (missed this earlier), but can it do it remotely?

 o Setting of 'host' attribute, based (perhaps) on a pre-configured
 list hosts.  pam_ldap can use this to limit logins only to
 specified hosts.

 o A "user" version, with administrator-configurable paramters that
 can be changed.  For example, as an ISP I might want users to only
 be able to change their passwords and possibly mail forwarding
 (and perhaps hook into a vacation program); as a corporate admin,
 I might want to allow users to change full names, office locations,
 etc. from GECOS, and shell.  Initially just a password-change
 module would be adequate.

 o Automatic creation of Cyrus IMAP mailboxes.  Is it possible
 to simply call the existing Cyrus IMAP Webmin module to do the
 creation?

 o Ability to also set passwords for Samba (2.2.2 has excellent
 LDAP-user support, according to a friend of mine who re-wrote it).

 o Passwords for SASL auth, based (perhaps) on the Cyrus-SASL LDAP
 patch at http://cyrus-utils.sourceforge.net/.

 o Ability to set per-user RADIUS attributes for FreeRADIUS
 (http://www.freeradius.org)

 o Possibly other password schemes...

Of these, only the first 2 are important to me right now.  The next
2 would be *nice*.

Looking at the web site, it appears that 0.0.2pre isn't 100%
compatible with OpenLDAP 2.0, but it *seems* like only Outlook
attributes are missing?  Is this correct?


Wil
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