Re: [webmin-devel] LDAP Users and Groups enhancements

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

I don't actually use any IDE - I just edit the Webmin .cgi and .pl files directly with vi. For debugging, I just use print statements :-)

 - Jamie

On 24/Feb/2008 17:29 Ivan Garcia wrote ..
> Ok, then I will proceed to develop them.
> 
> Do you recommend me any great opensource perl IDE to debug my enhancements?
> Which one do you use?
> 
> Best Regards.
> Ivan.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 
> > On 23/Feb/2008 22:54 Ivan Garcia wrote ..
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Hi Ivan,
> > Those sound like excellent ideas for features, and I'd be glad to include
> > them in the standard Webmin package if you implement them. As far as I know,
> > nobody else is working on them at the moment, so you should go ahead with
> > your project ..
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >
> >
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