WebAdmin Access

[Ed Huott]

Kolab relies on extra schema and configuration information that is 
stored in LDAP. It must have the permissions to create the objects into 
which to store this information.

In a case where you don't have admin rights to your main LDAP server, 
you would probably be better off creating a separate LDAP instance to 
which Kolab has admin rights and synchronize it from the main LDAP 
servers to get access to the existing user information there.

That said, I'll remind you that I am a relative Kolab newbie. There may 
be others on this list who can suggest a simpler solution. On the other 
hand, I do have some good LDAP experience and had to dig around a bit to 
iron out some bugs in my initial setup. It seems to me that not having a 
fully functional LDAP back end kind of defeats the purpose of installing 
Kolab since LDAP is the "glue" that it uses to tie together the 
different services (Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, Roundcube, etc.).


On 2015-05-14 09:35, Trogdor Wasaman wrote:
> Let's say I don't have full admin rights for our LDAP servers. . .
>
> Is there a manual way to setup a mailbox for an existing user? What do 
> I need to invoke in order to script out mailbox provisioning without 
> using WebAdmin?
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Ed Huott <ehuott at huott.org 
> <mailto:ehuott at huott.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Trogdor,
>
>     You might try taking a look in /etc/kolab/kolab.conf. This file
>     contains the credentials used by kolab-webadmin to access your
>     LDAP server. In the [ldap] section, you will see entries like:
>
>     base_dn = dc=example,dc=org
>     bind_dn = cn=Directory Manager
>     bind_pw = xxxxxxxx
>
>     Try setting 'base_dn' to the domain you wish to manage and
>     'bind_dn' to the the DN of the user object which has full
>     administration rights in your LDAP server instance.
>
>     Hope this helps!
>
>     Ed Huott
>
>     On 2015-04-24 07:30, Trogdor Wasaman wrote:
>>     If you don't setup LDAP (using another, pre-existing LDAP
>>     system), how does one setup the WebAdmin portion? There is no
>>     access for the cn=Directory Manager user for the first login.
>>     Where can I grant admin access for a different user?
>
>

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