Re: ldap newbie

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>True, and if I were Micro$oft, I would do that and I would invest $$$ in
>writing an interface to the directory, update the interface when the
>directory changes, worry about the security of the interface as well as
>the security of the directory... 
>I work for a growing university which is becoming inefficient using old
>methods to manage the growing number of users and services across
>several campuses, which used to be one.
>If I'm going to have to do all the upkeep of maintaining an interface, I
>might as well stick with NIS and all the account creation scripts that
>have been created and used for user management here for 10+ years. On
>the other hand, if I take time now to make the low level directory
>structure meaningful, I'll be able to use a simple low level ldap
>browser to add entries, delete entries, edit entries, and someone else
>is maintaining the interface for me.

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There are several administrative front ends to LDAP, for both the web
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ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

DirectoryAdministrator is particularly nice.