Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries

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91 points by woumn 11 hours ago

Check out my TUI I wrote for viewing and querying an LDAP. I need to do basic queries and validation daily for work, and as I work on a mac, there are really no good options. The major player is the Apache Directory Studio which is... not great. So I decided to create a new one.

zephyreon 10 hours ago

As someone that spends an inordinate amount of time in LDAP for work, it warms my heart to see this project. Will definitely try it out!

  • zephyreon 10 hours ago

    Apache Directory Studio is extremely cumbersome / heavy so this is much appreciated.

    • mbreese 9 hours ago

      That was what I immediately was thinking about. I wish I had had a tool like this when admining an LDAP server for a compute cluster. This would have made my life much easier, as opposed to using Apache Directory Studio through SSH tunnels.

      I’m glad this tool exists.

    • woumn 8 hours ago

      I hate it so much. And it barely works with newer macs.

majkinetor 9 hours ago

This is epic, especially as it is repository friendly. Thank you.

  • woumn 8 hours ago

    You're very welcome!

    • majkinetor 8 hours ago

      Tested it now somewhat. Some points so far:

      1. Installation script doesn't work on Windows. Exit 1 is particularly problematic as it kills the current shell

      2. No search on current page vim style (/) or full page up/down J/K

      3. On Query page j works but k somewhat scrambless the page in Windows terminal

      Not sure how seriously you want to support Windows, I could rise tickets on Github

      • woumn 7 hours ago

        I don't have a way to debug windows, so atm it's kind wysiwyg.

        #2 is a great idea. open a ticket if you'd like.

johntash 7 hours ago

As someone else who has to do a lot of work with LDAP, thank you!

You might want to consider adding a LICENSE file to the repo. That's the first place I looked before noticing it at the bottom of the readme.

  • woumn 4 hours ago

    I am thinking you opened an issue. Thank you! I added one.

throw0101a 8 hours ago

Is it possible to view/edit the "cn=config" tree of OpenLDAP to make configuration changes with this?

I often do

    ldapvi -h ldapi:/// -Y EXTERNAL -b 'cn=config'
and another tool could be useful.
  • woumn 7 hours ago

    It would be possible, but I don't have a good ldap server to test on, especially one I can modify config changes. If you'd like to contribute to the repo, adding a test ldap server that can be used for development would enable a lot more features.

dionian 9 hours ago

We need more TUIs! Love it!

  • joelp 9 hours ago

    The OP should post this on terminal trove [0]

    There are lots of TUIs there.

    [0] https://terminaltrove.com/

    • woumn 8 hours ago

      Will do!

    • dionian 8 hours ago

      Nice, thanks for the link. Right up my alley

  • woumn 9 hours ago

    Thank you!

jcims 10 hours ago

Miss my days tinkering with LDAP. This looks great, thanks!

  • oaiey 7 hours ago

    Me too. I also believe that LDAP and directory services are overlooked today

victor106 8 hours ago

Does this work with AD?

  • woumn 7 hours ago

    Haven't tested, but i think it should. it's using Go's LDAP library in the background