[Freeipa-users] Confused,HELP

[Tomasz Z. Napierala]

Dnia 2009-09-28, pon o godzinie 11:43 +0200, Michael Kang pisze:
> Dear FreeIPA community,
> 
> I'm confused those days. My PL wants to find a AAA solution for our
> company by using LDAP to storing employee information. Now they use
> phpLDAPadmin to manage Fedora directory server. Using Apache ladp mod
> to authenticate for internal websites.
> 
> Now I'm learning FreeIPA. But I don't know what's different with
> FreeIPA and 389-ds?
> 
> What could FreeIPA offer? What is the benefit of deploying FreeIPA in
> my company. 

FreeIPA is LDAP and more, where more is Kerberos and fancy web gui (to
name a few). So read about Kerberos to find out what that beast is for,
and you will have a bigger picture. 

Regards,
-- 
Tomasz Napierała
Systems Architecture Engineer,
IT Infrastructure Department
Allegro Team
http://www.allegro.pl/

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