Topic: LDAP Write?

[mischa]

Dear experts:
Has anyone succeeded in writing to the e-smith LDAP-Directory from a Webinterface created with PHP or ZOPE? I would like to give our users a way to change their own data. Any ideas anyone, how to go about it? Would I need a password for writing to the database? Is this the root-password? Or could I allow all users to change their and only their own data?

Thanx for your kind help

Mischa

[Charlie Brady]

mischa wrote:

> I would like to give our users a way to change their own data.
> Any ideas anyone, how to go about it?

You should write an add-on e-smith module. See http://www.e-smith.org/custom/ for documentation, and join the devinfo@lists.e-smith.org mailing list for ongoing advice.

> Would I need a password for writing to the database?

Yes.

> Is this the root-password?

No. It is a password generated at install time, and kept in /etc/openldap/ldap.pw (readable only by root).

Charlie