RE: GUI Tools

["Jason Hotchkiss" <jhotchkiss@msce.com>]

Thanks for your suggestion.  I currently manually add my entries using
ldapadd, but was getting tired of making LDIF files.  There is a tool
jxplorer that I downloaded and installed.  It seems to do what I am looking
for.  So 1/2 of my issue is resolved.  Thanks again and Happy New Year!

Jason Hotchkiss
MacKay & Somps Civil Engineers
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Michael Stroder
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:45 AM
To: Jason Hotchkiss
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: GUI Tools

Jason Hotchkiss wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good GUI tool to update, add or delete LDAP
> entries?

This question is asked very often.
Please see: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/271.html

Note that there are generic LDAP clients/browsers (like my own
http://www.web2ldap.de) which let you edit LDAP entries for getting started
but does not help much if you'd like to get a highly automated system
perfectly serving your daily administration needs.

There is another category of LDAP clients which focus more on "users" and
"groups" for certain LDAP-enabled services, e.g. pam_ldap, nss_ldap, Samba,
etc. Other LDAP clients focus on "address books" whatever that means in your
personal context. Naturally these clients lack support for things they were
not written for.

Also don't trust *all* software floating around. Make a security review!

>  Also, does anyone know of an out of the box intranet site that
> works with LDAP to allow employees to update their LDAP entries?

I always suggest to use <your-favourite-web-scripting-language> to implement
your own one which perfectly suits your needs.

Ciao, Michael.