Hi, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santos<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Mathias Gug<[email protected]> wrote: >>> outside this commentary, I agree que FDS is a better solution for >>> manager LDAP/OpenLDAP structure. >> >> Could you be more specific about the advantages of 389 directory over >> openldap? >> >> One of the best ldap server (openldap) is already available in the >> archive and I was wondering what are the advantages of having another >> full-blown ldap server to maintain in addition to openldap? > > mmm.. I believe that the principal characteristic or advantage of 389, > is the multi-master replication... > this is a big advantage in high-available infrastructures.
As far as I can tell openldap support multi-master since 2.4: OpenLDAP 2.4 has support for multi-master replication using syncrepl. http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1240.html > Further, most administrators have one or various front-end for > administer the LDAP tree. In this case, the GUI is part official of > project. > Agreed. This user admin interface is based on java servlets and requires tomcat to run IIRC. There are other alternatives such Apache Directory Studio though. -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
