On 07/02/2012 11:43 AM, Matt Lawrence 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? >
I'm a big fan of Red Hat Directory Server. It is actively developed and has very good enterprise support. You can also use the community version at http://port389.org/wiki/Main_Page. It has a ton of features you won't find in OpenLDAP, like multimaster support for 20 masters :) RHDS/389 DS is also what backs FreeIPA/Red Hat IdM. If you are looking for something more than a directory server (Kerberos/LDAP/DNS/PKI), you might check it out as well. Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ 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/
