On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Bill Woody <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent choices! I tortured all of them and wound up at the beginning with > that combination. > > Bill > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I posted a few months ago when we (Watkins College, that is) were >> looking for someone to help with an LDAP director issue. Time has >> passed as we take the larger view we're realizing what is really >> needed is a central directory server. Our choices seem to be Active >> Directory or LDAP - and we strongly lean away from that-which-is- >> Microsoft. >> >> My question for the group - is anyone aware of a great open source >> directory server? Yes, we'll want it to use openLDAP - a nice GUI >> interface, probably web-based, is very important. We'll want to >> customize the database and have many services using it for >> authentication, etc. >> >> Any recommendations? >> >> Curt >> > > > > > I've used OpenLDAP and 389/Fedora DS/Red Hat DS/SunOne/iPlanet quite a bit. At work we use RHDS currently. It has the advantage of Multi-master replication available. That also comes with added complexity. OpenLDAP is much lighter in weight. RHDS (and the like) are very robust and can handle millions of objects without issues. Our directory at work is very small, but the MMR was required to meet uptime requirements. Either way, I recommend phpLDAPAdmin as a front-end tool, or Apache Directory Studio.
We try to make everything authenticate via LDAP. Linux hosts, websites, svn repos, monitoring tools, etc all are normally pretty easy to setup. Databases, like MySQL, Oracle etc can have their own headaches. Interesting topic... stahnma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
