[TriLUG] Novell jumps into Linux

[Magnus]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Jim Ray wrote:

> is OpenLDAP the best replacement for active directory and user manager 
> for domains?

It's not an easy question to answer.

OpenLDAP itself is a pretty robust back end.  It serves the same 
purpose in Linux as Active Directory does under Windows.

The user management bit is a different story. Unfortunately there isn't 
any one tool out there that does everything.  directory_administrator 
is a simple tool for adding groups & users but not much of anything 
else.  gq is a more effective LDAP browser but doesn't seem to be under 
active development anymore.

I think what would be a good start is something like phpmysql... 
phpmyldap maybe? :)

Right now I use a combination of directory_administrator and gq, as 
neither does completely what I need it to do (though gq would be much 
more useful if it internally handled hashing user passwords, which is 
my primary reason for using directory_administrator).  Sooner or later 
I'm going to have the time to write my own admin tools.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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