Re: Introduction from Colorado

> tshooter91 said:
> 
>>Also, I've been working on some python scripts that work with Active
>> Directory and would probably want to integrate those somehow to
>>minimize  the number of users I have to set up and manage.  We're
>>going to a  system where every student has an account on the domain,
>>and I really  want to automate THAT.
> 

Dan Young wrote:

> LDAPUserFolder perhaps? I've been playing w/ that as a replacement
> User Folder, authenticating against our OpenLDAP directory, w/ good
> results.
> 
> http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder
> 
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District
> 

No, but I'm glad you mentioned it.  Right now I'm trying to use Zope on 
a windows machine, so I don't know how much it'll help.  (Seriously 
contemplating doing it on Linux, though.)  Also, every opensource LDAP 
implementation I've tried is difficult to get working with Active 
Directory.  The fact that some of this has been done, though, gives me 
hope.  Maybe something that I can extend rather than just write 
something of my own from scratch.  Just trying to get closer to the 
ever-elusive Single Logon.


I've done some work on a project to allow secretaries at each school 
enter a students name and grad year and have it create several usernames 
to try adding to AD automatically.  I also have scripts that will reset 
a user password in AD.  When I'm done, the secretaries (and other 
authorized people) will be able to manage user accounts from a web 
interface without ever touching my servers directly.  I hope to have it 
done before the fall semester.  I'm using python's capability to 
manipulate COM objects to access AD.

Brian




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