Re: Recommendation for Web Interface for OpenLDAP

[Michael StrÃder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Wes Modes wrote:
>    It's not clear from my peripheral once over of web2ldap what it is 
> written in.

Python

> How configurable/modifiable is it? 

1. Some forms can be customized with HTML templates.

2. Defaults for adding new entries can be configured with LDIF templates 
in a quick-list.

3. LDAP syntaxes and attribute types can have special Python plugin 
classes (written in Python) registered for them (by OID or name). Check 
out the various examples in etc/web2ldap/web2ldapcnf/plugins/. Many 
things can already be achieved by using exisiting base classes 
(static/dynamic select lists etc.).

There's currently no plugin API at entry-level for dealing with 
dependencies between attributes.
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> For instance, if I need 
> to add functionality to allow it to hash the smb related ldap fields, 

Setting the SMB password hashes ntPassword/lmpassword and 
sambalmpassword/sambaNTPassword is directly supported when changing an 
entry's password if the entry has one of the Samba object classes 
attached to it.

> are the hooks there?

Hmm, not sure I have a hook for hashing an attribute value right before 
adding it to the entry. Maybe some of the class methods could be used to 
achieve this.

Ciao, Michael.