[LUNI] OpenLDAP vs Fedora

[Samir Faci]

I presume that Redhat Directory Service is limited to RH. correct?
Actually, I'd like to hear some feedback between the two.  I did setup
OpenLDAP before, but beyond providing user authentication, i've had
some issues with deploying permissions for LDAP users.

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Samir

On 2/2/07, Keith T. Garner <kgarner at kgarner.com> wrote:
> Scott Lockwood wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 17:57 -0600, David Ehle wrote:
> >
> >> That said I've done installs of ldap auth twice now, once with openldap
> >> and once with fedora directory server so if you run into trouble feel free
> >> to drop me a message... though I'm far from a expert!
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >>
> >> David
> >
> >
> >
> > I would        really REALLY love to hear even an anecdotal comparison between
> > the two.
> >
>
> I'll have something to report in the next few weeks.  I'm doing it on a
> small cluster of machines at work.  I can tell you one thing,
> Netscape/Fedora/Redhat/Whoever Directory Server is a lot easier to admin in
> a lot of ways than OpenLDAP.  I've used OpenLDAP for a long time, but it
> just a pain in the pass on the admin side.
>
> One feature I like for Fedora is that the ACL's are stored inside the
> directory and updatable on the fly, unlike OpenLDAP.
>
> Keith
>
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