NDS user and group query

[Michael Weber]

Greetings!

I would like to create a web page that will allow users to look at my
Novell NDS tree groups and see what users are members, and look at users
to see what groups they are members of.

I don't want to give them ConsoleOne or NWAdmin since some of them are
still looking for the "Any" key. Know what I mean, Verne?

I tried Google and CPAN but didn't come up with much. Any experiences
guru's been there and done that?

I am running NDS 7 under NW 5.0. The Perl script will be running in an
Apache cgi script under RedHat Enterprise 3.0.

Thanx!

-Michael

[Rob Dixon]

Michael Weber wrote:

>
> I would like to create a web page that will allow users to look at my
> Novell NDS tree groups and see what users are members, and look at users
> to see what groups they are members of.
>
> I don't want to give them ConsoleOne or NWAdmin since some of them are
> still looking for the "Any" key. Know what I mean, Verne?
>
> I tried Google and CPAN but didn't come up with much. Any experiences
> guru's been there and done that?
>
> I am running NDS 7 under NW 5.0. The Perl script will be running in an
> Apache cgi script under RedHat Enterprise 3.0.

I've never done anything like this, but I'm sure I could. But please say
exactly what it is that you can't do. I mean, if you can't write a CGI
script then we start in a very different place from where we would if you
don't know how to read the NDS data.

Rob

[R. Joseph Newton]

Michael Weber wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I would like to create a web page that will allow users to look at my
> Novell NDS tree groups and see what users are members, and look at users
> to see what groups they are members of.
>
> I don't want to give them ConsoleOne or NWAdmin since some of them are
> still looking for the "Any" key. Know what I mean, Verne?

So how are you oing to make the information more accessible? I haven't worked
with ConsoleOne, but as I recall, NWAdmin is about as transparent as an
application can get for displaying network objects and their place in the
organizational scheme. Since access to the application does nothing to change
the users privileges, they will not be able to do any harm by viewing the
objects.

>
>
> I tried Google and CPAN but didn't come up with much. Any experiences
> guru's been there and done that?

> I am running NDS 7 under NW 5.0. The Perl script will be running in an
> Apache cgi script under RedHat Enterprise 3.0.

My guess is that you are going to have to work through some interface provided
by NetWare to get the information. Preparing this information for display in a
web page will be a CGI issue. Presumably, NetWare shoiuld not allow access to
NDS information through any back doors. Allowing such access would defeat the
prupose of having a secure NOS.

Joseph