Dinil Divakaran wrote: > > Greetings !! > > Before going for Fedora Directory Server, I thought of going through > the feature list to see what all additional features > are supported when compared to OpenLDAP. > > Though the feature list and FAQ says about many features > supported by Fedora Directory Server (like multi-master replication, > nested roles, cascading using hubs etc), they http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Features > don't provide information about some common features that > are supported by OpenLDAP. Some of such features include, All of these features and more are documented here - http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ A quick glance at the table of contents for these docs will give you a lot of information about these and many more features. > support for SNMP, Yes. > password hashing, Yes - crypt, SHA, SSHA, and (new in Fedora DS) MD5. > support of LDAP search > filters such as presence, equality, inequality, sub-string, > approximate and boolean operators, Yes. > support for consumer- > initiated replication, Not exactly. However, Fedora DS can be configured to have a searchable changelog (cn=changelog) which can be polled periodically. In addition, FDS supports persistent search. > support for supplier-initiated > replication, Yes. > support for Digital certificates, Yes. Clients can use certificates to authenticate to FDS, and admins can configure mapping the cert subject DN to the user's LDAP entry. > support for > XMLDAP gateway and whether the Directory server support > XML for integration with external applications. I think you mean DSMLv2. Yes, FDS includes a DSMLv2 gateway. > XML and > XMLDAP are not supported by OpenLDAP too, I believe. > > May be most of the above features were trivial to the > Directory Server; but still, I would like to know whether > these features are supported before going for Fedora Directory Server. > > Can anyone please help ? > > Note: I am not a member of this mailing list; kindly put > a CC to me. > > - Dinil > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3312 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050620/ee0c35c7/attachment.bin
