Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin and LDAP

[Rob T. <ro...@op...>]

Hello Jamie,

 

First of all thanks for all the effort you put in helping all of us.

Maybe I can spend some hours to help you (e.g. creating howto's or extra
help pages in Dutch or English).

 

About the problem: unfortunately it doesn't help.

I have added to LDAP properties for all new users field sn: unknown.

This didn't help, so I went back to LDAP users and groups and tried to add a
user without a surname (sn).

My expectation was that this user would be added with an sn of unknown (like
if I filled in the lastname field), but it didn't. 

Then I filled in a surname (xyz) and the entry was added to the ldap
directory with a surname of: unknown xyz.

It appears to me that the existence of surname is checked and if it is not
available, the entry is rejected.

When it is available, then the LDAP properties for all new users is added to
the sn property.

 

Thanks again for your answer.

 

Rob Tielen

 

Van: web...@li...
[mailto:web...@li...] Namens Jamie Cameron
Verzonden: donderdag 28 februari 2008 21:59
Aan: Webmin users list
Onderwerp: Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin and LDAP

 

On 28/Feb/2008 10:17 Rob Tielen wrote .. 

Hello,
 

I have got virtualmin running and try to add users to an LDAP directory.

Everything works fine with LDAP users and groups when I switch on: Show
fields for given name and surname and give a username in Last Name.

Unfortunately when I use virtualmin to add a new domain (and user), it
fails: with failed to create administration user!

Virtualmin version is 3.522, webmin version 1.400.

Do you have any hints for me how to solve this problem?

 

This suggests that your LDAP schema requires that the 'sn' attribute by set.
You can have it do this automatically as follows :

1.	Go to the LDAP Users and Groups module, and click on Module Config.
2.	In the LDAP properties for all new users field, enter something like
:
sn: Unknown
3.	Click Save, then re-try creating a domain in Virtualmin.

 - Jamie