Re: [K12OSN] fedora ltsp ldap

[John Sechrest <sechrest peak org>]

Brook Humphrey <bah webmedic net> writes:
 ....
 % Again i wish I new more about it but quite frankly ldap scares me to death and 
 .....


 I am very courious to understand why LDAP is a scary thing.

 As an ISP, we have adopted LDAP for our normal password/authentication
 processes. Using Open LDAP and SSL , we can use the PAM modules
 to provide access on our machines.


 However, we have gone on to start driving our system configurations
 out of ldap. Our DNS system, our mail delivery addresses and
 our web server rights and configurations are now driven out of 
 LDAP.

 If you look at the ONID system at Oregon State University,
 they are providing campus wide support thru LDAP. And they
 have provided managed web access to widely dispersed users
 via LDAP. Take a look at the packages that OSU is 
 developing with the http://www.osuosl.org Open Source Lab. 

 It may be a little hypertechnical to write LDAP schema,
 but with the schema already written, what are the issues that
 are barriers?

Security?
Complexity?
Ease of use?
Ease of deployment?
Support levels?







 % On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:55 pm, Eric Harrison wrote:
 % > I have not taken a look at what Mandrake is doing with LDAP. Can you
 % > give me pointers to what you like about it? It would REALLY MAKE MY DAY
 % > to find a good solution, triple brownie-points for GPL code ;-)
 % >
 % > -Eric
 % 
 % OK here goes. I dont do ldap myself but the guy who maintains or samba 
 % packages has done something with the packaging to make it more or less 
 % painless. I wish I knew more about it. His name is buchan milney I think the 
 % last name is close but not correct. Anyway he would know more about this than 
 % me and he used to maintain all the packages for the samba project but now 
 % just does it for mandrake. He is very active with mandrake development and 
 % also does allot with the ldap packages. 
 % 
 % Again i wish I new more about it but quite frankly ldap scares me to death and 
 % so i have not tried it yet but i keep watching to see what the others are up 
 % to in case I decide to try it.
 % 
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