Topic: LDAP Editor

[Matt Q]

Hi,

I hope someone may be able to help...

Does anyone know of an nice looking LDAP editor? Basically I would like my end-users to be able to easily access, edit and add to their LDAP address book. I've found a few editors, but none are quite right. Some are too difficult for my simple minded end users, and the ones which do look good and are easy to use don't let me edit or add addresses! Hope someone can advice something!

Also another quick question: Although I'm Linux competent, I'm not exactly Super Server Man, so I have a quick question which may not make sense:
Does the SME Server (5.5) have PHP and Apache on it and enabled by default?

Thanks a lot guys!

Matt

[Bill Talcott]

Matt Q wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an nice looking LDAP editor? Basically I
> would like my end-users to be able to easily access, edit and
> add to their LDAP address book. I've found a few editors, but
> none are quite right. Some are too difficult for my simple
> minded end users, and the ones which do look good and are
> easy to use don't let me edit or add addresses! Hope someone
> can advice something!

I added some stuff to our server's LDAP addressbook not too long ago. I know very little about LDAP, so I may not have done it "the right way". But when I added a new user, all of my changes were gone. I'm not sure if the whole thing is rebuilt when you add a user, or if I just did something wrong, but either way the new entries are gone.

> Also another quick question: Although I'm Linux competent,
> I'm not exactly Super Server Man, so I have a quick question
> which may not make sense:
> Does the SME Server (5.5) have PHP and Apache on it and
> enabled by default?

Yes. SME uses Apache webserver software, and PHP is used in webmail, among other things.

[Mark Fifield]

Thanks for that,

It's funny actually, the same kind of thing happened to me. I uploaded our entire company address book to the LDAP server, then a few days later I needed to edit the slapd.conf file, and after that all of my LDAP entries were gone, except the original SME Users!! Fortunately I uploaded from an LDIF file, and was able to re do it, but I still have no idea where they went!

[Sean Cramb]

There is probably a template for LDAP, which it fills from data drawn from mysql. When a user is added (to the mysql database) it then probably pulls up the template and dumps all the user data into LDAP again. So if the users are not in the mysql database, they won't be put back into LDAP when it is refreshed after a user is added.

Doesn't anyone know if this is correct?