### Purpose of this module

This module was born to provide an easy-to-use frontend to adding, deleting and modifying Linux users stored on an LDAP directory (OpenLDAP).

It is very nice to have users on LDAP, as they can be searched by standard e-mail tools like Outlook Express. Besides, you gain the advantages of centralized user administration for all your Linux servers and workstations, much like NIS.

You acomplish this by adding pam_ldap and nss_ldap (both found on the `nss_ldap-*.rpm` package from Red Hat), besides installing and configuring `openldap-*.rpm`.

Unfortunately, when you put your users on LDAP you loose all nice tools like `Linuxconf` and even the Webmin Users and Groups module that makes easy to add or modify users. Worse yet, there are no standard command-line tools like `addusers` for the task. You'd have to get an LDAP browser (like `gq`) and know which attributes to add, risking to enter an uidnumber already in use by another user, or you'd have to type long and ugly `ldapadd`/`ldapmodify` command lines.

So I started to write this module. I hope someone find it usefull, and thanks to Luca Pescatore <l.pescatore@network.it> which tried to do something related and gave me inspiration to start this work.