From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 11:25:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD1016A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:25:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@orbweavers.co.uk) Received: from mail.orbweavers.co.uk (213-152-38-100.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.38.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C91D43D48 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:25:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@orbweavers.co.uk) Received: from www.orbweavers.co.uk (localhost.orbweavers.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mail.orbweavers.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB50BB2504 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:39:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from 217.37.3.201 (SquirrelMail authenticated user martin) by www.orbweavers.co.uk with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:39:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3040.217.37.3.201.1122457154.squirrel@www.orbweavers.co.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:39:14 +0100 (BST) From: martin@orbweavers.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: LDAP/nss_ldap adduser script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:25:25 -0000 Hi all, I've been using an ldap directory for quite a while now for my network logins, and love it. Problem is, it can be quite cumbersome to work with, any ldap clients I have looked at are either very sketchy or overly cumbersome for simple tasks (adding/removing users etc.), and ldif file format is a major pain to work with. My first question is - is anyone aware of a good light and stable ldap client that is easy to setup and use. My own research suggests no, which leads onto my proposal - I'm planning on writing a few basic scripts for working with the system - a 'ldap_adduser', 'ldap_rmuser' etc. Nothing major, not a full suite of utilities, just the basics to make life a little easier. I've had a look at the adduser script and it should be straight forward enough to tailer to this purpose, and I can't see any difficulties in writing them - check /etc/ldap.conf for the location of the users & groups, pops the details into an ldif and runs it through the ldap client. The one thing I am not sure about is getting the next available uid number, but I'm sure the answer will become apparent. So before I get into the meat of this, I wanted to check if anyone has any suggestions or comments. Cheers, Martin