Adding Users through SOAP

[olay80]

hello,

is it possible to add a user to zimbra LDAP directory through SOAP? i need to add users dynamically using C#.

Oliver

[dkarp]

The <CreateAccount> admin SOAP command will create an account in Zimbra's LDAP. (Note that this command requires admin auth and must be sent to the admin port/URL.)

Please see the soap-admin.txt document for details.

[olay80]

hello,

can you please be more specific, to which port should i sent my post to? should i develop a listener on the zimbra server to interpret my SOAP messages or there already exists one?

thank you,
Oliver

[dkarp]

Yes, there's already a SOAP listener in the Zimbra server. That's how Zimbra's admin client does its RPCs.

Yes, that SOAP listener will handle <CreateAccount>. The doc I pointed you at should describe most if not all the admin commands the Zimbra server supports. <CreateAccount> is definitely in there!

No, I don't know what port you're running your admin service on. You set this up when you installed the software.

You need to send the request to the admin service (/service/admin/soap/) rather than the standard SOAP service (/service/soap/).

[schemers]

If you want to see a trace of the soap request/response for creating an account. you can run zmprov with the debug flag:

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov -d createAccount joe@domain.com secretpassword

You can also look a SoapProvisioning.java to see where the SOAP messages are constructed.