On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 07:39:12AM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > > I’m looking to tap the collective wisdom for product selection > > advice and also recommendations for professional services for our > > environment. We’re looking to replace our current authentication > > system. We’re a K-12 that’s all-Apple (about 500 client machines). > > On the server side, we’re a mix of OS X, Linux, and BSDs. > > I'm amused everyone seems to be telling you to set up an AD > infrastructure when you have absolutely no windows clients or > servers. > > FreeIPA is a pretty good all-in-one solution. It'll support your > macs, BSD and Linux systems natively. Just Kerberos and LDAP. It has > a comprehensive web interface too. Check out the Demo page: > > https://www.freeipa.org/page/Demo > > -- > Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> > Sometimes the best tool for the job is one that you have to go out and buy. And after having used AD at Rosetta Stone, I'd say AD is the one reason that I would even spin up a Windows Server. They just _get_ how to solve this problem better than others do. That said, my servers are all on Linode, and true AD was off the table. I settled on using Zentyal to get around it, as I also didn't want to shift from Ubuntu back to a RedHat derivative. (I support the goals of CentOS, but I dont really like how out of date they tend to be, and how often CentOS has lagged behind in pushing out upstream updates.) -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS
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