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<header>LDAP Users and Groups</header>
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If your system is configured to use an LDAP server for storing Unix users and
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groups, this module can be used to manage users in an LDAP database. LDAP is
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often used as an alternative to NIS for synchronizing user information across
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multiple systems in a network, as a database can store additional attributes
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for each user in addition to the standard Unix username, shell and so on. <p>
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Naturally, an LDAP server must be running on your system or on some host
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on your network for this module to be used. In addition, one or most hosts
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must be configured to use LDAP for user and/or group authentication. Neither
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of these tasks can be done from within the module - they must be done manually,
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or with other Webmin modules for the purpose. <p>
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If you have Samba configured to use an LDAP server as well, this module can
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also create and manage the necessary password attributes for each LDAP user
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to be able to login to the Samba server as well. For this feature to work,
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your LDAP server must be configured to support the additional Samba attributes
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and object class for each user in its schema. Only when the <b>Samba login?</b>
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option is set to <b>Yes</b> will the Samba attributes be created. <p>
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The module can also create users on a Cyrus IMAP server, if it is set up to
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authenticate against the same LDAP database. It will create mailboxes for
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each new user, subscribe the user to his mailboxes and grant admin access
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to them. If an LDAP user is deleted, his IMAP mailbox will be as well. Currently
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this feature only works with the Cyrus IMAP server - it has not been tested
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and is probably not even necessary for other servers, which use users' home
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directories for mail storage. <p>
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