about ldapsam:editposix extension

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="simo">
> To who may be interested I've started a little howto that
> give some direction on how to better use the ldapsam:editposix
> extension.
>
> This extension is not yet in any officially released code, if you want
> to test it you need to pull the trunk SVN tree from samba.org
>
> The HOWTO:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ldapsam_Editposix
>

Hi Simo,

As we understand it, this extension allows you to choose whether or not
you use enternal tools like IDEALX's smbldap-tools? Correct?

How do you add users/groups then with this extension, via adding a normal
user account on the Samba PDC (posix account)? What manangement tools can
an admin use?

The reason we ask, is that we are about 70% porting the IDEALX
smbldap-tools to OO-Perl code to go on to the CPAN, called Samba::LDAP. So
we are just checking this work is not a waste.

This also has some bits in it for adding Open-xchange users (only the LDAP
part really).

The work for Samba::LDAP distribution port is because of another Web
Application we are around 50% through called SOSA, The Samba and
Open-xchange Simple Administrator. It is written with the Catalyst
Framework (http://catalyst.perl.org), with a bit of Prototype.js and
mostly the Dojo Toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org). Beta screenshots
available if anyone is interested ;-)

Anyway, enough of that. Are there any tech docs about your new Schema
Extensions we can read about, as they might be good to make use of inside
Samba::LDAP.

Many thanks,

Gavin.

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