"Filipe Brandenburger" filbranden@gmail.com wrote in message news:e814db780908171213h581bf267m10a95ab837be49d8@mail.gmail.com...
Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit of a pain to do it manually all the time.
You can try "libuser", it's available in CentOS 5 (yum install libuser) and apparently has support for LDAP.
"libuser" is an attempt to generalize the useradd/mod/del, groupadd/mod/del commands to work with generic backends. The implementation includes a module to work with an LDAP backend, I just don't know how functional/stable it is...
You can start by installing the package and having a look at /etc/libuser.conf, and at the commands luseradd, lgroupadd, ... (the same ones you already use, only with the "l" prefix.)
For more information: https://fedorahosted.org/libuser/
Thanks. I tried it out but can't seem to get it to work for me. Doesn't display any error msgs, but doesn't actually do anything to the LDAP server. I've looked at the site, but it is incredibly bare; not even any links for mailing lists, support, etc. Any ideas where I might be able to find some help for it? I enabled full logging on my OpenLDAP server, and I see it failing with TLS negotiaiton for some reason, even when I don't want it to use TLS.
Any thoughts where I can find more info?
Thanks,
Eric