[webmin-devel] LDAP Users and Groups enhancements

[Ivan G. <cap...@gm...>]

Hi everybody,

My name is Ivan Garcia,spanish, I'm also developer of OpenSource
applications(like Subdownloader and Babiloo), mainly Python is my favorite
language but Perl I consider is a great choice for Shell scripts, config
files and in general managin Linux Systems, that's why I must say
congratulations for WebMin.

Now my point is that I work for a company in Singapore that was using a
home-made Java software named Quro to manage Users/Groups/Computers in a
LDAP-Samba server(and branches). I was assigned few days ago to make
enhancements on this propietary Java software but after seeing the mess of
the outsourced code I decided to convince my bosses to use Webmin and
enhance the module LDAP Users and Groups to make it fit with the
requirements of our client. Due that Quro is not commercialized anymore and
we just need to pick up the best long-term solution for our client, we
decided to take the Webmin solution.

Our servers are in Suse Linux Entreprise 9 (I've already test webmin on our
testing server, it works fine) this is the list of enhancements I need to do
for Webmin LDAP Users and Groups:

1- Add documentation on the webmin wiki to explain all the configuration
options.
2- Add the help.cgi link in many of the module config fields.
3- Enhance the *LDAP attributes *section in *Configuration For module LDAP
Users and Groups *in order to enrich the type of attributes (so far there is
only input text or textarea fields but no checking is done.) The reason of
this is for example to add attribute types like *email *so I can check if
the email has a good email format, or telephone numbers, etc, that can be
done specifying an regexp (or using some function that webmin have already)
4- In the *Create New Ldap User / Edit user* allow to modify the  *acctFlags:
[         ] *attribute by using 1 html checkboxes per acctFlag.
5- The same way we list all the Users and Groups, we would like to list also
the Computers (under ou=Computers as normal) and during the editing or
creation of new LDAP User, allow us to choose from which Computer will be
this user only allowed to access from.
6- In *Configuration* we should allow the admin to specify the fields
allowed to Search, so far is restricted to Uid, RealName and few more. What
about searching an ANY attribute for?

I hope you guys give me some feedback letting me know if some of this
features are already implemented or in process to be implemented that way I
don't need to waste efforts programming them. Also if you think some options
are not making sense or would not be good idea, let me know also.

Best Regards.
Ivan.