Re: [webmin-l] auto entering attributes LDAP_Useradmin

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

On 7/Oct/2006 19:46 Craig White wrote ..
> I'm having an issue auto entering attributes in LDAP Useradmin when
> creating new users - these auto entries simply aren't created though the
> objectclass 'apple-user' is added and other samba attributes get
> automatically entered. Also, if I manually add these entries below
> (longhand - no ${USER} ), the entries are created.
> 
> 1 - apple-user-homeDirectory, values typically look like
> 
>    /Network/Servers/srv1.example.com/NetUsers/administrator
> 
> so my auto enter looks like
> 
> apple-user-homeDirectory /Network/Servers/srv1.example.com/NetUsers/${USER}
> 
> 2 - apple-user-homeurl, values typically look like
> 
> 
> <home_dir><url>afp://srv1.example.com/NetUsers/</url><path>administrator</path></home_dir>
> 
> (actually, it appears that these values are Base64 encoded when saved in
> DSA)
> 
> so my auto enter looks like
> 
> <home_dir><url>afp://srv1.example.com/NetUsers/</url><path>${USER}</path></home_dir>
> 
> so it leaves me wondering if I somehow need to escape these auto entries
> so they process properly in your perl scripts.
> 
> Suggestions?

Is ${USER} a substitution done by the LDAP server, or by Webmin? Normally when you
specific an extra LDAP attribute like ${SOMETHING}, it will be replaced when the user
is saved with some attribute of the new user..

What did you mean by 'escape the auto extries' exactly?

 - Jamie