Moral Question - Imail Migration Tool & OSS Zimbra Admin

[raj]

Hi..you can PM me and i will send you the tool and more details.

you dont need to diretly lookinto zimbra LDAP..you should use SOAP API's of zimbra they work great and are version independent to certain degree. Playing with LDAP is not recomended as it can change with versions.
there are some PHP wrappers people have made if you search the fourms.

Raj

[PaulBM]

That's great, Raj, I'll PM you soon.

Our knowledge of Zimbra is limited, we're very new to it. It took us a while to get it running. We fell at the tty required hurdle. Some near useless one line answers to the problem being 'comment out the line DEFAULTS requiretty' wasn't helpful because it didn't specify the file. Eventually we found out that it was /etc/sudoers. I still have no idea what visudo is.

We have installed all components of Zimbra, although we have LDAP running on our domain controllers. I connect to LDAP on both domains (not Zimbra) from our website to validate staff and students for certain areas of the site.

Perhaps we'll need a PHP cron job to scan for new accounts on the domains?

[mmorse]

If you still want that explanation:

Originally Posted by mmorse

visudo
comment out:
#Defaults requiretty

Originally Posted by mmorse

ie: Type visudo to edit /etc/sudoers rather than another text editor (vi, nano, nedit, gedit, etc). Visudo provides basic sanity checks, looks for parse errors, and locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits (say you we're in a multi-admin environment).

If requiretty is set sudo will only run when the user is logged in to a real tty. Requiring it disallows things like 'rsh somehost sudo ls' since rsh does not allocate a tty, etc, etc. Here we're turning it off because it's saying "you must have a tty to run sudo".