Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Dec 2005 11:28 UTC
"We are pleased to announce the release of Fedora Directory Server 1.0! This version fulfills the promise to open all of the directory server source code that we made almost 1 year ago - 12/8/2004 - the date at which Red Hat acquired the code. Here are some Screenshots."
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Member since:There are way using PAM's or NIS wrapper to have an LDAP server support centeralized login for UNIX machines. I have done this with Linux and Solaris in the past.
The funny part is that we used to do it with a Netscape iPlanet Server, so this is probably roughly the same code base that I know supports it.
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Since I am not familiar with Netscapes/Fedora's directory services, I am confused by what this may present to IT sysadmins in the future. Being familiar with Active Directory and Novell, I think I am only seeing a tree and not the entire forest.
Is there a client similar to Novell's client32 that you would install onto a windows NT/9x machine to allow for logins into the directory services? Is there a client to install onto a linux box that requires to the linux user to log into directory services instead of a local account? Even better, a mac client for macs to log into the directory?
Since I am a getting tired of dealing with spyware, I have been researching ways for some of our clients (mostly car dealership) to avoid using windows and instead using mac and linux/freebsd systems. The question I keep asking myself is why isnt there a decent alternative to Active directory/Novell NDS. Perhaps, this could be it? I do hope so.
-Tim Bazzinett