Ubuntu in complex office situations

[Johan Ramm-Ericson]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:17 +0000, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
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> >     I'm on the third week of wrestling with pam_tally, cracklib, pam,
> > and LDAP. It started out so simple...
> >
> >     A local debt collection company wanted to dump their Windows boxes,
> > which only telnet to an RHEL3 machine where they do their actual work.
> > 12 machines were to lose Windows and just about everything in the office
> > was going to be Linux; this far from the larger towns, this was going to
> > be quite a big deal.  Here, Linux is barely a rumor.
> >
> >     At home I share /home and /shares (multimedia partition) and use
> > LDAP to handle authentication. I manage the LDAP stuff with
> > phpldapadmin, since I change users every few years.  :)
> >
> >     One problem is there's no user-friendly user-management programs to
> > hand an office manager. Computing for people, don'tcha know.  DirAdmin
> > is close, but had a bug or two that caused grief. And, too, there was
> > never a "this is how you generally populate the server to get it to get
> > along" documents.  Worse yet, it's a dying project.
> 
> The only thing I can bring to the table is Fedora Directory Server. It
> has one of the nicest administration consoles I've ever seen. That
> doesn't mean the administration console is easy enough to use for mere
> mortals, however.

I found this document (http://www.grennan.com/ldap-HOWTO.html) which in
section 7.0 - among others - suggests:

    http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap

That may be worth a try?

/johan