[Samba] web admin ui for samba AD

[Jeff Sadowski]

This thread has me thinking about good ways to use python with web pages.
Maybe php or just flat HTML for the main page and have python work with cgi
to pass information with json's using AJAX

Any thoughts on this?

I started using php many years ago and always ended up using php itself the
same way with an HTML page heavy with javascript that made ajax calls to
update itself from other php pages using ajax.
Maybe php for authentication with COOKIES?


On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Ioan Eugen Stan via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I didn't know about that one. I will try it out. Right now, it looks
> good enough.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 10.09.2016 07:53, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-09-10 at 04:41 +0300, Ioan Eugen Stan via samba wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm thinking about starting a web tool for managing an Samba Active
> >> Directory - manage users, machines, etc. Managing Samba AD is my
> >> motivation so far. The idea is to build more or less a web version of
> >> "samba-tool". This is just an idea and so far I am exploring the
> >> implications.
> >>
> >> I have a strong background in Java / JavaScript. I can code in other
> >> languages but I am not as proficient.
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. Where should I start?
> >>
> >> 2. Is there an API for doing the administrative work or do I have to
> >> implement each operation myself?
> >
> > While I see below you are against Python, but for others I would
> > mention that we have an extensive Python API, this is what samba-tool
> > is written against.
> >
> >> 3. Asuming I will be using Java, how can I call samba-tool actions?
> >
> > Connect to the LDAP server and use LDAP operations.
> >
> >> 4. Besides Java, what tools can I use to do CRUD on Users, Computers
> >> in
> >> Samba AD ? Examples would be very usefull.
> >>
> >> Note: I went over the wiki and there is not a lot of documentation. I
> >> saw something about a python API but I'm not familiar with python and
> >> it's not something I wish to use.
> >
> > Finally, have you checked that LDAP Account Manager (LAM) doesn't do
> > what you want?
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
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> >
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