\begin{Jeff Waugh}
> <quote who="Rick Welykochy">
>
> > what is the *nix equivalent of active directory?
>
> Well, not solely *nix, but LDAP is the current fad (which AD is based on,
> funnily enough). In days gone by, NIS(+) filled this role, although I don't
> believe it did everything that AD does.
the concept of "central administration" in general trivially falls out
of the unix design. since everything is a text file, and commands can
be run remotely just as effectively as locally, anything can be easily
automated from anywhere with the one set of tools.
> I'd be interested to hear any recommendations for Free Software LDAP
> interfaces - not just the bog standard stuff, rather, reasonable interfaces
> to network management schemas and the like.
gq, emacs' eudc, ldapsearch/ldapmodify, etc.
with Net::LDAP and the like, its pretty easy to write quick scripts to
do whatever you want. that way you can code in local policy/defaults
too.
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