[Fedora-directory-users] Add user (Perl) CGI script

Luis
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:10 -0000

Hello all,

I just wrote a CGI script that allows adding users to Fedora Directory
Server (FDS) very easily. The script is attached to this email. Future
revisions can be downloaded from:

http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=adduser-ldap.cgi

The license is GPL. So feel free to add it to other projects.

Features:

* Simple to use and to install
* E-Mail is sent to the user that was created (templated) and CC to
another email
* Uses readily available Perl modules: Net::LDAP, CGI, Net::SMTP
* XHTML 1.0 and CSS plus javascript to avoid typing much (fields get
automagically populated as you type)


Installation:

copy cgi script to your cgi-bin dir:

cp adduser-ldap.cgi /var/www/cgi-bin/

make sure it''s executable:

chmod ugo+rx /var/www/cgi-bin/adduser-ldap.cgi

create a "secret" file:

echo "password" > /etc/adduser-ldap.secret
chmod 0400 /etc/adduser-ldap.secret
chown apache /etc/adduser-ldap.secret

make sure that the needed Perl modules are installed (hint: perl
adduser-ldap.cgi)

modify the variables on top of the script to taste.

The script assumes that you will be using "admin" as your bind dn:

my $LDAPADMINCN
  "uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=netscapeRoot";

TLS is supported, but can be easily turned off if you are using it in
the same box as the server is running. (Just comment out the
start_tls() call).

Feel free to post this script to the wiki page. (I couldn''t figure out
how to do that ;-))

I made this script to allow creating accounts by non-technical
personnel to the LDAP directory (used by Wildfire Jabber Server).

Everything works like a charm!

Enjoy

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Luis Mondesi
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Kiskeyix.org

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