[Samba] Re: school PDC questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 09:22, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:05:23AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Get used to writing and running Net::LDAP perl scripts.  Then it's a
> > simple matter of parsing the text dump from your student admin system.
> > 
> > My site is just Samba+LDAP, plus a lot of local scripts.  
> > 
> > If generating passwords for your students, the Crypt::SmbHash module is
> > very useful.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> 
> Is LDAP a must in this example? Wouldn't it be just as easy to create
> local accounts?

LDAP scares people.  However, once you understand it, you realise how
many things 'speak' ldap, and when you get ideas about setting up a BDC,
then it becomes a 'must'.  (The other 'solutions' you might consider -
particularly rsync - simply don't work).

I find LDAP allows me to easily add information about web quotas, for
example.   (I hope to release my particular variant on this problem
space shortly)

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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