NAME Wizard::LDAP - Administration interface for your LDAP server SYNOPSIS # From the shell: ldapWizard # Or, from the WWW: LDAP administraton 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 the Wizard(3) manpage, the ldapWizard(1) manpage, the HTML::EP(3) manpage, the Net::LDAP(3) manpage