EasyLDAPServerFeisty?

Thu Jun 28 08:13:52 BST 2007

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> Gavin Henry wrote:
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> "Implementation
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>     * Use OpenLDAP for feisty
>     * Switch to Fedora Directory Server when the packaging is fixed.
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> Why would you want to switch to FDS?
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> FDS has some really nice built-in features that require some mucking
> about with vanilla OpenLDAP to get working.&nbsp; Things like redundancy
> via
> multiple slaves are all set up and ready to go, plus the GUI tools
> provided are nice.<br>
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> FDS *is* OpenLDAP with some sensible defaults and some pretty slapped
> on top.&nbsp; It's really not bad.<br>

It used to be, it's nowhere near it now.

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> Gavin Henry wrote:
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>   <pre wrap="">We have client servers that are ubuntu based, so we were
> keen to follow
> progress here, as ubuntu can be a nightmare to setup for things like
> pam_ldap etc.
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> Never had problems with it myself.&nbsp; There are step-by-step guides on
> help.ubuntu.com.&nbsp; I built an LDAP/Samba/NFS server for a client to
> authenticate Mac/Linux/Windows users all from the same box and dish out
> the same home/MyDocs, .bashrc (mac/linux/win-cygwin), etc.&nbsp; The whole
> thing is managed by GOsa:<br>
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> href="http://www.gosa-project.org/">http://www.gosa-project.org/</a><br>
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> Heaps of doco about on the web, and the whole project was fairly
> trivial.<br>
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> -Dan<br>
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