Speaking of LDAP management: I have had the best experience with this tool: http://muclm.sourceforge.net/
Highly configurable, plug-in system, user-friendly, and installation takes 5 seconds. On Dec 25, 2007 10:35 AM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 09:34 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > I am considering setting up a heterogenous work environment with about > > 100 high-end Linux work stations, 40 MS Windows, and 10 Mac's. The > > underlying common authentication system will likely be LDAP. Would NIS > or > > Active Directories be more appropriate for this type of environment? > > I don't have any experience with NIS so I can't really compare, but I > would wonder why ActiveDirectory is the only other option ? > > In my office we have a setup using OpenLDAP and Samba to support Linux > and MS-Windows Workstations and it works great. From my experience the > downside of using the MS ActiveDirectory solution is that its difficult > to get the Linux workstations authenticating directly to the LDAP both > because the default ActiveDirectory schema does not provide the required > properties to support UNIX style authentication and authorization and > that in the ActiveDirectory LDAP protocol implementation there are > several bug^H^H^H non-conforming implementation details that sometimes > cause the openldap client to fail. > > I've tried several OpenLDAP directory server products, and the most > success I had was with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server which works great > out of the box and you don't need to deal with the LDAP directory stuff > at all - the YaST user management feature works directly with the > directory and you don't need to actually know how to set it up. > > -- > > Oded > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
