I'm sure you've heard or used Active Directory, or Novell's NDS aka eDirectory. And I'm sure you've used or heard of OpenDirectory and OpenLDAP. Have you heard of Ganymede?
I encountered this little wonder while scouring the net sometime 4 years ago but did not bother since I was not much into directories and stuff. Now that I'm dealing with enterprise issues, I tracked back a little and revisited my previous haunting ground -- linux.box.sk and still found Ganymede ( http://tools.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/). According to its website: *GANYMEDE* is a portable and customizable network directory management
system, released under the GNU General Public License<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. It is free software <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>. Ganymede is written in Java, and the Ganymede clients can be run on any system with JDK 1.1.7 or better. The Ganymede server is designed to run on a UNIX-type system, but can be run on almost any Java-supporting operating systems with the proper support scripts. Ganymede is designed to manage network directory services such as NIS, DNS, Netinfo, and LDAP. The Ganymede server contains an object database<http://tools.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/doc/server.html#objectdatabase>of your network directory data, which users and admins can browse and edit using a polished GUI client<http://tools.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/screenshots.html>. Whenever a change is committed to the database, the Ganymede server dumps out a bunch of data files and runs backend scripts to update your network directory services. All changes are logged<http://tools.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/newpics/user_history.jpg>, and Ganymede can send email to your users and administrators notifying them of account activity.
Seems like I've going to experiment with this after all :). Add to that, it's open source ! :) -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, sybase.public.ase.linux
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