Re: LDAP and user management with Webmin

[Fernando L. <fs...@ce...>]

Hi Jamie,

> > Howdy all.  I'm setting up a couple new machines to replace our mail 
> > server and our AUTH/HTTP box.  I made a failed attempt at getting NIS to 
> > work.  I think I could make it work in the end but our Webmail package 
> > would have to be replaced and that's not a project we're wanting to 
> > tackle right now.  We're stick with my passwd syncing scripts for now.  
> > I'm now considering going straight to LDAP in the future.  The main 
> > concern I have is how Webmin's Users and Groups module will work in the 
> > future (or my modified version for that matter).  
> 
> 
> You probably won't be able to use the Users and Groups module, as it works
> by directly editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. 

I wrote a webmin module for User management on an LDAP directory, see ldap-users.sourceforge.net. It's very alpha release but it was enough to some customers I have -- that was the reason to create the module.

[]s, Fernando Lozano