Re: webmin functionality

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Thomas Stripling wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have a few questions about the capabilites of webmin.  Any help would 
> be appreciated.
> 
> 1.  Does anyone have the latest version of Webmin (1.020) working with 
> the latest BIND (9.2.1)?
> If so, did you run into any version-specific problems that I should be 
> aware of before upgrading?

None that I have heard of ..

> 2.  We were looking at trying to get Webmin to link administrator 
> accounts with ldap records.
> In other words, Webmin would not store users locally.  Instead, a field 
> (or several) would be added to ldap records denoting whether a user was 
> a webmin administrator or not, and what modules they have access to.
> 
> For example, when a user logs on, Webmin would authenticate with ldap to 
> verify the username and password.  It would then check the user's 
> privileges (fields in ldap) to find out what that user should have 
> access to and grant them those rights.
> 
> Is there currently a way to get this to work within Webmin?  If not, is 
> anyone developing something like this?

There is no support for this currently, but it could be added with a moderate
amount of coding. You would have to modify miniserv.pl to check against an LDAP
server when users login, and web-lib.pl to have the read_acl function get the list
of allowed modules from the LDAP server as well. Plus the get_module_acl function
may need to be modified to get a user's access control settings for a module
from the LDAP server as well ..

> 3.  Minor issue:  We have gotten complaints about compatibility issues 
> with Netscape when editing records (on version .88).  Has anyone else 
> had this problem?  Is it fixed in the newer version?

I haven't heard of anything like this in 0.88, but a lot has changed since then
so it probably has been fixed.

  - Jamie