<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Account types</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/layout.css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="images/favicon.ico"> </head> <body> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Account types<br> </h1> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="base module" src="images/lam_baseType.png"><br> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br> <div style="text-align: left;">The account types define what kind of accounts can be managed with LAM. If you want to create a new account module which does not fit in the existing classes of users, groups and hosts then you need your own account type.<br> <br> All account types are saved in <span style="font-weight: bold;">lib/types/</span>.<br> <br> Please take a look at the <a href="type_index.htm">type HowTo</a> for an example to write your own types.<br> The complete specification for the type interface can be found <a href="types-specification.htm">here</a>.<br> <br> <h2>Superclass</h2> All <span style="font-weight: bold;">account types</span> should be subclasses of the <a href="base_type.htm">baseType</a>.<br> This reduces very much the code since not the complete type interface has to be implemented.<br> <br> <br> <h2>Type detection</h2> New types can simply be copied to <span style="font-weight: bold;">lib/types</span>. LAM will check what files are inside the directory and provide the user new types automatically.<br> There is no extra configuration file.<br> <br> <br> </div> </div> </body> </html>