On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:32:54 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark stated: >On 04/05/18 15:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 05/04/2018 13:35, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >>> >>> Quoting Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org>: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I've maintained the net/phpldapadmin port for _many_ years. >>>> Unfortunately this project seems to have ceased development upstream. >>>> There hasn't been a new release for more than 5 years, nor any sign >>>> of life from the original developer over much the same timespan. PLA >>>> still just about works, but it is lacking in support for more recent >>>> versions of PHP and generally sufferring from lack of love. >>>> >>>> I'm beginning to think that it is about time to take this port around >>>> the back of the barn and administer the coup-de-grace. There are >>>> other graphical front-ends to LDAP directories available, such as >>>> 'LDAP Account Manager' https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/ >>>> (in ports as sysutils/ldap-account-manager), so people won't be left >>>> entirely out to dry. >>>> >>>> What do people think? Is it time to deprecate and expire PLA, or is >>>> there a diehard core of users for whom PLA will need to be ripped >>>> from their cold, dead hands? >>> >>> One diehard here... hands still warm... >>> >>> Have tried ldap-account-manager but does not suit my need at all. >>> Unless anyone has a better suggestion for a lightweight web-based >>> utility I vote for it to stay.
sysutils/ldap-account-manager has proved to be the best alternative I have found yet to phpLDAPadmin. The documentation sucks and I believe that the maintainer could do a better job of explaining how to get the program up and running, similar to what Matthew does with "phpLDAPadmin", but that is just my own opinion. The fact is, *.nix programs are not known, with the exception of Postfix and a few others, of having great documentation. >> I have a vague recollection of a web-based LDAP front end written in >> python, but I entirely failed to make any sort of proper note about what >> it was called... >> >>> I did an install just a month ago on php71 so not sure about "lacking >>> in support for more recent >>> versions of PHP", do you have any specifics? >> >> Yes, sure. PLA sufferred from the upstream deprecation of mcrypt within >> PHP. We've added local patches to work around the problem -- these have >> been obtained "from the net", basically a corps of PLA users supporting >> it in an ad-hoc fashion between themselves. As the dropping of mcrypt >> affected core functionality like *logging in*, you might think upstream >> would patch the core distribution and make a new release fairly rapidly, >> but there's absolutely no sign of that. >> >> Personally I'm fairly happy to leave PLA to hum along to itself for the >> time being, but if future changes to PHP render it unusable, or if there >> are nasty security bugs discovered and no fixes available, I'm going to >> have to reconsider. > >The Python based tool is probably web2ldap, I will try it out but the >port version lags upstream a bit. I am contacting the maintainer now and asking him if he could possibly update the port. >A bit of googling shows that there is most likely enough users of >phpldapadmin so that patches will be available to make it php72-safe. Nothing has happened in years, but it is worth a shot. I like "phpLDAPadmin". I don't know why it was abandoned. >//per -- Carmel _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
