<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Gavin Henry wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:56282.212.159.59.85.1182954268.squirrel@webmail.suretecsystems.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> "Implementation * Use OpenLDAP for feisty * Switch to Fedora Directory Server when the packaging is fixed. " Why would you want to switch to FDS? </pre> </blockquote> FDS has some really nice built-in features that require some mucking about with vanilla OpenLDAP to get working.  Things like redundancy via multiple slaves are all set up and ready to go, plus the GUI tools provided are nice. FDS *is* OpenLDAP with some sensible defaults and some pretty slapped on top.  It's really not bad. Gavin Henry wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:56617.212.159.59.85.1182956784.squirrel@webmail.suretecsystems.com" type="cite"> <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. </pre> </blockquote> Never had problems with it myself.  There are step-by-step guides on help.ubuntu.com.  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.  The whole thing is managed by GOsa: <tt><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gosa-project.org/">http://www.gosa-project.org/</a> Heaps of doco about on the web, and the whole project was fairly trivial. -Dan </tt> </body> </html>