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
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:
- Set up OpenLDAP (make sure to get a real certificate and
require TLS/SSL)
- If using Samba, set up the smbldap tools
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smbldap-Tools), can be useful even
if not using samba...
- Start script (I'd use perl, since it's what I'm most familiar
with)
- Generate username (either collect from input or generate
somehow
- Generate password (There's a sub for that on the page
referenced earlier)
- Contemplate making sure that the username is unique, and
group membership, etc.
- call smbldap-useradd to add the user (add stuff like -m for
the mail address, check the smbldap-useradd documentation for
handy switches
- Compose body of email to user (this is probably mostly
static, but you will most likely want to substitute some
variables like username, etc
- send the email (sub on the page earlier)
- 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
- Sit back and have a beer, cuz yer done
I'm happy to help if you need more.
Cheers,
Sean