This one time, at band camp, Wouter Verhelst said: > Op di, 16-11-2004 te 19:28 +0100, schreef David Schmitt: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:15:24AM -0700, Omar wrote: > > > Also I want to ask if there is a way that I can check the user Authentication? > > > Or get a list of users and their level? admin, regular user and so on. I believe > > > that the previous admin used LDAP, is there a way I can look into the LDAP > > > database and find out the users and their levels? > > > > Try taking a look at getent. Calling "getent passwd" gives you a list of > > system users. > > > > For lowlevel access to the ldap slapcat is probably the easiest. > > except that slapcat wants you to shut down the slapd for safe operation. > You probably want ldapsearch instead. It's not so much that you need to shut down slapd, as that you want to make sure that slapd is not doing _write_ operations, or you'll get inconsistent data. Since the vast majority of LDAP operations are read only, slapcat is generally fine. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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