Wizard::LDAP::User - A base class for implementing users in the LDAP wizard

  # From the shell:
  ldapWizard

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

  # Follow the "User menu"

This package implements the handling of user objects in the LDAP server. It is part of the LDAP wizard.

The following items can be edited in the user window:

This is the users login name, for example

  joe

You should restrict login names to 8 characters.

This is the users password. You *must* fill in a password.

This is the users real name, for example

  Jochen Wiedmann

This is a single-line description of the user.

This is the users email adress, for example

  joe@ispsoft.de

You may omit the domain part in which case the default domain from the preferences will automatically be added.

If mail for the user must not be stored locally, but forwarded to an external email account, then you have to fill in this field, the external email address.

This select box determines, when email is being forwarded. It is ignored, if the mailforward (see above) is empty.

The default is to forward mails always (in other words: Immediately). You may however choose to wait 1-5 days before forwarding email. The latter option requires support from your mailserver, for example by a cron job that takes care of forwarding.

If the user has an external POP3 boxes, you may insert them here, for example

  username@my.pop3.server

The attribute is used by a cron job that is regularly mail from the remote box. The mail is then forwarded to the user.

This option requires support from your mailserver, for example by a cron job.

Likewise, this is the password being used to fetch mail from the remote POP3 box, if any.

By default users have a status of "mail": In other words, they may read mail only. They may also have a status of "ftp", in which case they are accepted to login via FTP or "admin", in which case they have a regular shell account.

The users status determines its login shell. The possible shells are

  /bin/mailonly
  /bin/ftp_mail
  /bin/bash

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.

Wizard, ldapWizard, HTML::EP, Net::LDAP