- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] LDAP Web Management Tool
- From: Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:05:25 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Tony Green">
>
> > I'm after something that they can use to update phonenumbers, passwords,
> > pictures, other misc info without having to worry about the backend.
> >
> > It has to be web based (easily) and hopefully themeable (but I can do that
> > manually).
>
> Unfortunately, because LDAP is so wonderfully flexible, I don't believe
> anyone in the Free Software word has built a simple, user-oriented front end
> that is non application specific. It is a reasonably hard problem, and while
> I have spent some cycles on it in the past, I've never had the time to
> really get my teeth into it.
There are some add-ins for webmin. I got the admin one working but hit a
couple of library type snags with the user interface. Some day I might
get back to it.
Go have a look at Webmin.
--
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com>
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