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Re: i should've been more specific...

hi,

If you're looking for a user managment type site. I originally wrote one in PHP for my employer. It work ok and we're been using it for about 2 years with netscape iplanet directory, although it does not use any netscape specific features. The current maintainer has released the source as a opensource project at sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapusrmgr/

Does add, delete students, change passwords, that sought of thing. It may ( or may not ) be the best project for you, but it might be something to look at or start with. I believe he has started work to make the site for generic ( remove site specific schema, etc. ).

also try http://www.open-it.org/ for their directory admin tool.
I haven't used that one though. It looks nice but it's not available for windows. We have admins on all different types of platforms. I'm hoping that salt http://salt.sourceforge.net/ takes off.

I agree OpenLDAP needs some well tested and supported open-source, OpenLDAP specific tools. Preferabley PHP for web due to it's availability, and java for desktop for cross-platform. Maybe a web configuration tool like samba's even.

The web tools are necessary for sites with lots of admins. I think the desktop tools are also nice to have, usually can be more powerful.

We're currently in about the same situation as you, as in we're currently evaluating OpenLDAP ( as a replacement of iPlanet ). If it goes through I'll probably be working on some of those tools in due time. So if anyone's interested.

--Kervin


Joshua S. Freeman wrote: 
Thanks Nathan...

heh... I'm pretty aware of sourceforge.. I used to work at Andover.net
and then VA!.... I actually checked out a few things on Freshmeat a few
weeks ago but didn't find anything outstanding... I'd checked SF too..
but.. well, while they both have LOTS of info. on Open Source apps.  i
figured a list like this that specialized in OPENLDAP might help me
shorten the search process a bit.

:-)

J.

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Nathan Brown wrote:


The Best Place to look for open source applications is
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=183, as far as
the best one for use of LDAP I would have to suggest using there search
feature (currently down, atm) to find all the relevant products and select
which feature set best suits the goals which you wish to accomplish.

Regards,
Nathan.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua S. Freeman" <jfreeman@amnh.org>
To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:31 PM
Subject: i should've been more specific...



as far as a front-end for openldap... we'd really like to find an open
source solution.. or at the very least, one specifically written for the
Linux OS.


TIA,

J.

 Joshua S. Freeman -  Asst. Dir. of IT,  Applications Support
American Museum of Natural History - CPW at 79th St., NYC 10024
     email: jfreeman@amnh.org  web: http://www.amnh.org/
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  Joshua S. Freeman -  Asst. Dir. of IT,  Applications Support
 American Museum of Natural History - CPW at 79th St., NYC 10024
      email: jfreeman@amnh.org  web: http://www.amnh.org/
desk: (212) 496.3573 mobile: (917) 502.0738 skytel: (888) 562.5844






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