LDAP admin tools

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 9/26/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip.  I have been using Webmin for years for this, but it's
>> good to have a couple different hammers.
>>
>
>>From various reports and from a local exploit in the past few days,
>with Webmin you've got your thumb under the hammer. Most folks
>consider Webmin the best way on Linux to become owned.

I'll see your webmin, and raise usermin.

Even constrained to the local LAN, webmin, as shipped, has some
``interesting'' bugs such as not checking user's home directories.  I've
had somebody set a user's directory to /home, realized they made a mistake,
move the directory, and *EVERYTHING* under /home ended up under
/home/someusername.  If they had tried deleting the user, it would have
happily done an ``rm -rf /home''.

Bill
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