Re: Debian and LDAP?
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ashley Clark wrote:
> * Ian Eure in "Debian and LDAP?" dated 2000/10/09 18:45 wrote:
>
> > 3. there are no tools for creating and maintaining users in an ldap
> > database. this is the biggest problem, imo. login, passwd, chfn, chsd
> > and su are all pam-ified, but user{add,del} and group{add,del}
> > aren't.
>
> File a wishlist bug against passwd
>
already done, bug #61210.
> > are there any plans to have better support for ldap in woody? it
> > would be extremely nice to have ldap authentication as an
> > installation option, and have openldapd automagically migrate all the
> > users, groups, etc when it installs.
>
> Yes it would be nice to have that, another wishlist bug it seems
>
filed yesterday night, though i don't see it in bts.
> > maybe creating a debian-ldap list would be a good idea?
>
> That is a good idea, I thought we had one, but checking I see that we
> don't. Is there enough interest in it though?
>
i thought there was one as well. it would be nice to have some more
discussion away from the main list, though.
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