Posts tagged with “ldap” and “linux”
October 01
Creating a user and group in OpenLDAP directory
When setting up an OpenLDAP server for a friend, I've come across the difficulty of automating user account creation. The problem was that the person (or program) creating the accounts would have to know quite a lot about the structure of LDAP directory, correct usage of ldap commands, as well as error handling and logging. I wanted to free the program from having to do any of this; instead, it could make a simple call to a Bash script and let it handle the details.