On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:29:44AM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > On Aug 21, 2005 at 14:30, Pierre Habouzit praised the llamas by saying: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@m4x.org> > > > > > > * Package name : ldapscripts > > Version : 1.2 > > Upstream Author : Ganaël LAPLANCHE <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> > > * URL : http://contribs.martymac.com/ > > * License : GPL > > Description : Add and remove user and groups stored (using ldap) > > > > Ldapscripts are shell scripts that allow to manage POSIX accounts > > (users, groups, machines) on an LDAP directory. They are similar to > > smbldap-tools but are written in shellscript, not in PERL. > > > That should be Perl. Thinking about it, why would the user care what > language it is written in. > Because the "user" is (99% chance) an admin. > > They only require OpenLDAP client commands (ldapadd, ldapdelete, > > ldapsearch, ldapmodify, slappasswd) and make administrator's work a lot > > easier avoiding him to configure PERL and each library dependencies > > (e.g. Net::LDAP). > > > Again Perl, but then should this paragraph really matter to a user? > Because the "user" may not want extraneous or extra Perl modules installed on his system. If you are building a production box, you may want to know. > > These scripts are very simple to configure by not requiring any > > Samba-related information (SID, profiles, homes, ...) : management of > > Samba attributes is entirely done by standard commands (net, smbpasswd > > et pdbedit) used together with the scripts. Moreover, most of the > > configuration is guessed from the one of libpam-ldap, and everything > > should work out from the box for most users. > > > > The scripts may be used independently - within command lines - or > > automatically by Samba (like smbldap-tools), to handle POSIX information > > within accounts before adding Samba information. > > -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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