On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked to research the various options for Directory Services for > Linux. The likely environment will be SLES and the requirements are not > terribly complex. At this point the main interest is in doing account and > password management in a single place, supporting the particular rules we > need to meet NERC compliance. And since it is a compliance issue, getting > something from a vendor has advantages over rolling our own internally. > > Searching for SLES Directory Services led me to the Novell eDirectory web > page that actually links to documentation on the NetIQ wedsite. They are > all owned by The Attachmate Group, but that particular structure doesn't > give me much confidence. In addition, the software provides lots and lots > of enterprise scale functionality and supports lots of platforms. It's > probably a lot more complex and expensive than we need to solve out current > requirements. > > Rolling our own with OpenLDAP could do the job, but there is a bit of > reluctance to do that because of compliance issues. > > Any suggestions? > > -- Matt
I've heard good things about the FreeIPA project, and it's been added as part of RHEL6. Haven't used it myself, but everyone says it's pretty good. ❧ Brian Mathis _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
