Comment LDAP Software (Score 2, Informative) 350
LDAP has become a very important tool at our facility. We have a mixed Windows 2000 and *NIX environment with AD and OpenLDAP directories. Our sister corporation has one of the fastest clustered Alpha systems in the world and they used it to map the Human Genome. Our business unit was created to embark on an even greater technological and medical endeavour. The regular user community is comfortable with Windows so we give them that. However, we rely only on *NIX for anything mission critical or requiring stable computing power. We have installed OpenLDAP to take care of everything outside of Windows. The following OSs authenticate (or will) from OpenLDAP: Slackware, Redhat, TRU64, Solaris, AIX, Nortel, etc. This gives us a single user/password for the users of any of those systems. In addition, I have coded over the following software to authenticate against LDAP:
IRMA 0.8 http://irma.incubus.de/
IRM 1.3.3 http://irm.schoenefeld.org/
Document Manager http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/docman.html
The following software already takes advantage of of LDAP:
Horde/IMP 2.0/3.0 http://www.horde.org
QMAIL http://www.qmail.org
Rolodap
A very good LDAP useradd, passwd change, etc. Java tool:
Java LDAP Browser V 2.8.2 http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap
You can also use IRMA for user/group management. We initially started with IRM, but we are moving over to IRMA since it is very clean code and easy to extend.
We use Netscape Communicator 4.79 Roaming profiles so that users that move between Windows and *NIX can have their bookmarks, address book, etc. readily available. Don't use the mull.schema because it has a couple of errors. I will be posting the correct schema at http://www.igranite.com in a couple of weeks (the domain doesn't point anywhere at the moment) as well as more LDAP info. You may search IMP mailing lists for the latest schema I posted.
A project we would like to see started is LDAP Gina. I have no programming experience in Windows, so it would be great to have a community knowledgeable in both *NIX and Windows create an LDAP Gina. I found a NIS gina which could possibly be extended to LDAP?
As many corporate orgs are probably finding out, the GNU, GPL, and Linux community are producing high caliber software and solutions for corporate use. Linux is fast becoming the center of desktop use, already solidly beating back an attempt by Windows to break into the corporate *NIX environment. Having lost the server fight, no wonder why a MS memo ordered a clobbering of Linux.
Could you have ever changed the code like we did using commercial software / OSs? And we will be uploading our changes to the respective authors to make the software that much better.
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IRMA 0.8 http://irma.incubus.de/
IRM 1.3.3 http://irm.schoenefeld.org/
Document Manager http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/docman.html
The following software already takes advantage of of LDAP:
Horde/IMP 2.0/3.0 http://www.horde.org
QMAIL http://www.qmail.org
Rolodap
A very good LDAP useradd, passwd change, etc. Java tool:
Java LDAP Browser V 2.8.2 http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap
You can also use IRMA for user/group management. We initially started with IRM, but we are moving over to IRMA since it is very clean code and easy to extend.
We use Netscape Communicator 4.79 Roaming profiles so that users that move between Windows and *NIX can have their bookmarks, address book, etc. readily available. Don't use the mull.schema because it has a couple of errors. I will be posting the correct schema at http://www.igranite.com in a couple of weeks (the domain doesn't point anywhere at the moment) as well as more LDAP info. You may search IMP mailing lists for the latest schema I posted.
A project we would like to see started is LDAP Gina. I have no programming experience in Windows, so it would be great to have a community knowledgeable in both *NIX and Windows create an LDAP Gina. I found a NIS gina which could possibly be extended to LDAP?
As many corporate orgs are probably finding out, the GNU, GPL, and Linux community are producing high caliber software and solutions for corporate use. Linux is fast becoming the center of desktop use, already solidly beating back an attempt by Windows to break into the corporate *NIX environment. Having lost the server fight, no wonder why a MS memo ordered a clobbering of Linux.
Could you have ever changed the code like we did using commercial software / OSs? And we will be uploading our changes to the respective authors to make the software that much better.
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