NAME

Wizard::LDAP - Administration interface for your LDAP server

SYNOPSIS

# From the shell:
ldapWizard

# Or, from the WWW:
<a href="ldap.ep">LDAP administraton</a>

DESCRIPTION

This is a package for administration of an LDAP server. It allows to feed users, hosts and networks into the server.

INSTALLATION

First of all, you have to install the prerequisites. There are lots of:

An LDAP Server

You need some LDAP server. We are using the OpenLDAP server, see

http://www.openldap.org/

In theory any other LDAP server should do, but the servers configuration might be different.

A source RPM for Red Hat Linux is available on demand.

To configure the LDAP server, edit the file topics.ldif from the distribution. Currently it looks like

dn: topic=user, dc=ispsoft, dc=de
name: user 
objectclass: topic

dn: topic=net, dc=ispsoft, dc=de
name: net 
objectclass: topic

Change "dc=ispsoft, dc=de" to reflect your local settings. For example, if you are using the mail domain "mycompany.com", then you might choose

dc=mycompany, dc=com

Import the file into your LDAP server by using the command

ldif2ldbm -i topics.ldif

(The above command will trash an existing LDAP database! Use ldapadd if you want to avoid this.)

Append the files slapd.at.conf.APPEND and slapd.oc.conf.APPEND to your /etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf and /etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf and restart the OpenLDAP server.

IO::AtomicFile

This is a Perl package for atomic operations on important files.

HTML::EP

If you like to use the WWW administration interface, you need the embedded Perl system HTML::EP.

Wizard

Another Perl module, available at the same place.

Convert::BER

Net::LDAP

To talk to the LDAP server, we use Graham Barr's Net::LDAP package. It is written in 100% Perl, no underlying C library required.

All the above packages are available on any CPAN mirror, for example

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id

or perhaps at the same place where you found this file. :-)

Note that some of the packages have their own requirements. For example, HTML::EP depends on libwww and the MailTools. If so, you will be told while installing the modules. See below for the installation of the Perl modules.

Installing the Perl modules

Installing a Perl module is always the same:

gzip -cd Wizard-LDAP-0.1005.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd Wizard-LDAP-0.1005
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Alternatively you might try using the automatic installation that the CPAN module offers you:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install IO::AtomicFile
install Bundle::HTML::EP
install Bundle::Wizard
install Convert::BER
install Net::LDAP
install Wizard::LDAP

Note that some of the modules, in particular HTML::EP, need additional configuration tasks, for example modifying the web servers configuration files.

Some final tasks

You have to create a directory /etc/LDAP-Wizard and make it owned by the httpd user, so that CGI binaries can write into this directory.

Copy the file ldap.ep into your web servers root directory. (I choose /home/httpd/html/admin/ldap.ep on my Red Hat Linux box.)

Point your browser too the corresponding location, for example

http://localhost/admin/ldap.ep

Start with modifying the preferences.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

This module is

Copyright (C) 1999     Jochen Wiedmann
                       Am Eisteich 9
                       72555 Metzingen
                       Germany

                       Email: joe@ispsoft.de

               and     Amarendran R. Subramanian
                       Grundstr. 32
                       72810 Gomaringen
                       Germany

                       Email: amar@ispsoft.de

All Rights Reserved.

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

SEE ALSO

Wizard(3), ldapWizard(1), HTML::EP(3), Net::LDAP(3)