On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:50 -0600, Lonnie Olson wrote: > I have used OpenLDAP before as a backend for my Samba server. It wasn't > very much fun at all. OpenLDAP seems to be the defacto standard, but I > have never heard anyone say anything nice about it.
I use it all the time. It sucks. But it does work fairly reliably. > > You mentioned Fedora Directory Server... Is it easier to manage? Is it > painful to install and use on other distros? Are there any other Free > ldap directory servers that are decent? I started to try out FDS once. I didn't get very far. In some ways it seemed more complicated than OpenLDAP's normal setup (standard hierarchy). I'd love to hear more about it myself. > > Apple's OpenDirectory sounds great, but I don't have an OSX Server, and > don't plan on getting one anytime soon. > > I am in the same boat as Kenneth, I want small centralized > authentication, with low overhead. For now I have been using rdist to > copy passwd and shadow files to all my servers. :/ Interesting solution. Michael > > --lonnie > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
