Maybe what i said is not clear, because my English is too pool . Please forgive me if my expression is not precise.
Doesn't matter what mail server you use, email is email.
The following is my environment : Workspace Environment : CentOS 5.5 64bits , Using Openldap Server or 389 LDAP Server Mail Server : Windows Mail Server For example : If I create the new account called Tim on LDAP Server , and his password is 123456 , and his mail address is tim@test.com <mailto:tim@test.com> Then will send an E-mail to him to notice his information , like his name and his passowrd. So Would someone can give some suggestions ?
Before we go any further on this, I'd like to give a very serious warning. It is NEVER a good idea to email a password. Email is, by definition, insecure.
I'm not familiar with 389 LDAP Server, and after a quick look, it would make sense for me to read up on it. Anyhow, my advice is going to come from the OpenLDAP side of things.
I would:
1. Set up OpenLDAP (make sure to get a real certificate and require TLS/SSL) 2. If using Samba, set up the smbldap tools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smbldap-Tools), can be useful even if not using samba... 3. Start script (I'd use perl, since it's what I'm most familiar with) 1. Generate username (either collect from input or generate somehow 2. Generate password (There's a sub for that on the page referenced earlier) 3. Contemplate making sure that the username is unique, and group membership, etc. 4. call smbldap-useradd to add the user (add stuff like -m for the mail address, check the smbldap-useradd documentation for handy switches 5. Compose body of email to user (this is probably mostly static, but you will most likely want to substitute some variables like username, etc 6. send the email (sub on the page earlier) 7. I repeat, please don't email passwords... have them call you for them or something... email is the least secure thing on the damn planet 4. Sit back and have a beer, cuz yer done
I'm happy to help if you need more.
Cheers, Sean