From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 12 14:28:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF4A37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:28:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3652043E3B for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0050.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.50] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18BjWL-0005mk-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:28:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD18044.A928D4AD@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:27:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP Admin? References: <3DD13BE2.8000902@centtech.com> <3DD14FE5.7DAC9339@mindspring.com> <3DD15ADF.7070600@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric Anderson wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>What are you FreeBSD admins using to administer OpenLDAP directories? > >>Command line tools? Scripts? GUI's? > > > > > > PHP. > > A prebuilt app written in PHP, or a custom app that you wrote? > > If prebuilt, what is it? There's a prebuilt application, available under GPL; it is in the OpenLDAP list archives, and is posted every once in a while. I believe it's also in the "FAQ-o-matic" (I *hate* those things). I personally use an account sign-up and administration tool which I wrote, and which is application specific. In general, LDAP does not expect people to treat it like a relational database. If you wanted a database, you would be using a relational database. LDAP expects to be used like a WORM drive: changed exceedingly rarely, but read frequently (like a telephone book or any other directory service). Many LDAP-based services perform manual imports of data once or twice a month, for their entire operational lifetime. What are you trying to do? Maybe you would be better off with a relational database, instead of a hierarchical database? If you plan on writing it often enough to need an administration tool (you can read an LDAP database using "ldap://" URI's and a Netscape browser), then you are probably using the wrong tool for the job. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message