Microsoft Active Directory (M.A.D....they've got a knack for acronyms) Is M$'s embrace of LDAP extended with some of the goals from ACAP (if I remember correctly).
To be truthful, I've stayed away from LDAP for some time because I didn't want to deal with all the variations on net directory services. MAD/NetInfo/OpenLDAP/Netscape/ClickMail CD (which I developed webmin for) all have their different take on it, with netscape pretty much dictating standards (they have/had the original UMich team). MAD is very windows centric. NetInfo isn't neccessarily LDAP, but performing a role that in it's absence would likely be filled by LDAP. OpenLDAP is the closest thing to a deployed real LDAP. Does anybody actually use netscapes implementation? And ClickMail CD only runs on MacOS and has been described as an LDAP "2 and a half" built like a SLAPD. It's good for network based queires of inherited metadata...but beyond that, everybody applies the hammer/nail mythos to it, and what should be a standard in practice isn't. OK...rant aside...I feel the best way to administer LDAP is to have one server set up specifically for administration, and have a tier 2 that inherits from it. You you could use a webmin/SSL hosted on the LDAP server itself you can access anywhere, and the actual deployment boxen that hosts interact with can be optimized for queries and serving. The inheritence doesn't neccecarily have to be via LDAP to the admin box...you could distribute the data to the tier 2 boxen via LDIF or some other scheme of your choosing, so that box doesn't become a bottleneck. tack On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Eric J. Pinnell wrote: > Hmm... that would be an NT/2000/XP thing? > > -e > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Whitney, Dennis wrote: > > > No one here uses LDAP/Active Directory Server? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Whitney, Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:11 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: [bits] LDAP > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > Anyone have any good tools or advice on using LDAP and Active > > Directory? > > > > Dennis Whitney............//....Modem Media > > Application Engineer......//....111 Sutter St. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]//....16th Floor > > 415-733-8479..............//....San Francisco, CA 94104 > > > > "Those who would give up essential Liberty, > > to purchase a little temporary Safety, > > deserve neither Liberty or Safety" > > --Benjamin Franklin > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > <majcher> icky is like a shadowy hit man, that nobody ever sees, and can only > contact through some strange process. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > -- ------------------------------------------------ Article 19: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
