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hannibal:ldap-administration

We frequently use these tools for user and systems management and for manually editing of the LDAP-database.

Operating system commandline tools

  • The .deb package 'ldap-utils' provides cli-tools as ldapadd, ldapcompare, ldapdelete, ldapmodify, ldapmodrdn, ldappasswd, ldapsearch and ldapwhoami.

You can install it simply issuing:

apt-get install ldap-utils

Gosa framework for user and systems management

  • GOsa² provides a powerful GPL'ed framework for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. Gosa presents itself to admins and users via a highly configurable webinterface. More information is available at the Gosa-website https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/.

Smbldap-tools

  • The Smbldap-tools are cli-tools, written in perl, that help to manage your samba user and group accounts. Documentation on howto deploy the Smbldap-tools is available in the Hannibal fileserver section.

GQ

  • GQ is a GTK-based LDAP-client. Useful for low-level manipulating of the LDAP database.

You can install it simply issuing:

apt-get install gq

LDAPbrowser

  • The ldapbrowser is a LDAP-client built in JAVA.

You can download it at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap

Ldapvi

  • Ldapvi is a more hardcore tool for editing LDAP-entries.

You can install it simply issuing:

apt-get install ldapvi
hannibal/ldap-administration.txt · Last modified: 2008/06/26 07:44 by Olivier Brugman