Re: create_homedir 0.1 -- Comments requested

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Cool.  I'd like to follow development of the LDAP stuff, if you don't 
mind posting occasional updates here.  I was going to do LDAP 
integration for my virtual hosting module but if you do the hard work 
first, I'll be happy to borrow ideas.   ;-)

Wil Cooley wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I've written a little module to teach myself about the internals of
> Webmin, especially the RPC stuff.  So, I wrote one that presents
> the user with a list of users (from user-lib.pl:list_users) and
> a list of configured Webmin hosts and allows him to create a home
> directory for the user, based on the configuration on the remote
> host (user's GID, home directory path, skel path, etc).  But rather
> than being useful just as a user module, I thought it might also
> be useful to other module writers.  (Me, in particular.)
> 
> You can pull it down from here:
> 
> http://nakedape.cc/~wcooley/src/create_homedir.wbm
> 
> I'd like to get other people's input on what I could improve.
> ACLs are what I'm planning to implement next.
> 
> I'm planning a fairly ambitious module I'm calling "Directory
> Manager", which will allow one to administer users, groups,
> hosts, and other things managed through the name-service switch.
> Initially, I'm going to make it work just with LDAP, since that's
> what I'm interested in, but I'm hoping to make it modular enough
> that people will add db, postgres, mysql support as necessary.
> (I'm planning to reuse some of the work that's already gone into
> creating ldap-user utilities.)
> 
> Wil

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