I have been an eDirectory customer for years. First at a university where eDir was the backbone of our student mail system and now in a Linux/OES shop where eDir and IDM are fully implemented. Over the years eDir has been rock solid and is standards based. However, it's not cheap.
bb On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:43 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 > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
