LDAP Tool Box Service Desk 0.6

The LDAP Tool Box project provides a set of LDAP-related applications, administrative tools, and other utilities. They have just released the 0.6 release of their Service Desk tool, which is a web application for administrators that supports viewing and managing accounts in an LDAP directory server. This release includes the following changes:

  • Added support for Active Directory
  • Fixed an issue that could arise when searching for multiple entries
  • Added the ability to configure a last authentication attribute
  • Added an option for defining a time zone
  • Added the ability to restrict allowed languages
  • Added an option to hide account lock and password expiration panels
  • Added the ability to display the name of an associated password policy subentry
  • Added support for additional password policy attributes from draft-behera-ldap-password-policy
  • Added support for configuring account validity dates
  • Added support for blocking (disabling) accounts
  • Added the ability to display audit log messages
  • Improved autocomplete behavior for password fields
  • Added an option to specify the scope for searches
  • Added an option control the sort order for multivalued attributes
  • Improved the documentation

Note that features for managing password policy state may only be available for certain types of directory servers.