Re: Nice feature

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 09:06, Mike Jackson wrote:
> Ryan Golhar wrote:
> > You know what would be really nice...a command-line version of DA.  
> > 
> > I basically use this tool to create new users.  It would be even more
> > convenient for me to add users if I could pass everything on the
> > command-line.  This way, I can write a script to gather the necessary
> > information and call DA from a shell to add the user.  I can then give
> > other users sudo access to add users w/o training them on a new
> > interface...
> 
> I wrote a command-line tool to add users to a directory. It allows you to specify all of the 
> required posixAccount attributes. It doesn't (yet) do uid or uidnumber uniqueness checking, but I 
> suppose that wouldn't be too difficult to add. I can send it to you if you like. It's written in 
> perl, using Net::LDAP.

I too have some perl scripts to replace useradd/userdel etc. They are
based on some that I found on the net but heavily modified to add most
of the required posix attributes and check for uidnumber uniqueness etc
(this was the biggest priority for me otherwise you may as well use a
browser). They are also quite strict about encryption to protect the
manager password, and use a config file for site preferences. This is a
bit off-topic for the DA list but if anyone is interested I dont mind
posting them to the interop list:
http://lists.fini.net/mailman/listinfo/ldap-interop

There are other utils available. I spent a while trying to get "cpu" to
work on solaris. I could get it to compile but not run. This is a
drop-in replacment for the user/group tools and works well on linux:
http://cpu.sourceforge.net/
Looking at recent release notes it may work on Solaris now.

There is also LED which allows you to edit what looks like a flat file
and transcribes the changes to the LDAP directory:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/led

hth

G

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