Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:27:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP Admin? Message-ID: <3DD18044.A928D4AD@mindspring.com> References: <3DD13BE2.8000902@centtech.com> <3DD14FE5.7DAC9339@mindspring.com> <3DD15ADF.7070600@centtech.com>
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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
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