[Samba] LDAP Account Manager 0.4.3 released

[Roland Gruber]

LDAP Account Manager (LAM) 0.4.3 - February 9th, 2004
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A web frontend for managing accounts stored in an OpenLDAP server.


Announcement
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The LDAP Account Manager team is pleased to release another beta
version of LAM.
This version fixes a bug with empty Samba passwords and there is now a
Hungarian and Japanese translation.

LAM is a set of PHP-scripts to administrate entries of a LDAP server.
User, group and Samba accounts can be displayed, searched, filtered,
added, removed and edited over an easy to use web interface. Even the
configuration options are embedded in the interface.

This is a beta version, do not use it in a productive environment!



Features:
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- management of Unix user and group accounts (posixAccount/posixGroup)
- management of Samba 2.x/3 user and host accounts
   (sambaAccount/sambaSamAccount)
- profiles for account creation
- editor for organizational units (OU)
- account creation via file upload
- automatic creation/deletion of home directories
- setting quotas
- support for LDAP+SSL
- multi-language support (English, German, Hungarian, Japanese)
- multiple configuration files
- PDF output for user/group/host accounts
- additional text for user PDFs
- supports multiple password hashes



Availability:
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This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0.

You can get the newest version at http://lam.sf.net.

File formats: RPM, DEB, tar.gz

There is also a FreeBSD port.

Debian users may use the packages in unstable or on Debian Mentors.


Support:
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As this is a beta release of LAM there will be some bugs in our
code. If you find one please file a bug report. For questions or
implementing new features please use the forum and feature request
tracker at our Sourceforge homepage http://www.sf.net/projects/lam.



Author & Copyright:
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Copyright (C) 2003 - 2004:
Michael Duergner <michael at duergner.com>
Roland Gruber <post at rolandgruber.de>
Tilo Lutz <tilolutz at gmx.de>
Leonhard Walchshäusl <dechutes at gmx.net>


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