John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some
information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department
concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and
email/collaboration).
An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like.
The only part of that debate you can't easily win is the much vaunted
"collaboration" services.
Oompfh. Big words.
Well: I'm looking for a ready-to-run Active Directory replacement,
with group policies. (I think you know about all the nice
network-wide configuration work one can does with group policies,
don't you?)
Integrating OpenLDAP (or RH-LDAP, for that matter), Kerberos,
cfengine, and a few other tools to achieve the same functionality,
is not for the faint of heart. Especially when it's a hassle to use
Kerberos authentication for many services.
While I'm an died-in-the-whool Unix user (I don't even use one of
these newfangled desktop thingies like KDE or GNOME and am satisfied
with fvwm and Emacs), I have to admit that a centralized way to
manage all servers and desktop, with system- and user(!)-specific
profiles, would be a great thing to have.
Care to name an Open-Source replacement for AD that is already
integrated, and where I don't have to do the integration myself?
Joachim
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