Hi, I spent some more time reading and experimenting. I'm slowly beginning to see a path emerge in the directory jungle. Here's some odd notes, impressions and questions. 1. Setting up a basic directory using 389 DS is extremely easy. It's more or less just a matter of installing 389-ds-* related packages on the server, run the 389-*.pl setup script, connect to the database and then add user information. Doing the same thing using OpenLDAP is a relatively painful experience, since it involves manually configuring and setting up things using ldapmodify, ldapadd and a bunch of handcrafted LDIF files. My basic instinct tells me to rather opt for 389 DS for that reason. 2. I setup a complete 389 DS on a spare sandbox machine running CentOS 7 in my office. Since the 389 Console requires a graphical environment, I setup X11 and installed a basic window manager (WindowMaker, my first one back in 2001 under Slackware 7.1). Worked like a charm even on my very first attempt. I vaguely sense I like 389 DS. 3. I did a Quick & Dirty setup on a sandbox client desktop running OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 KDE. On the 389 DS server I created a few users and filled in the relevant POSIX account information. On the clients I opened YaST and pointed it to my 389 DS server instead of local authentication. No NFS for the moment, I just created the corresponding home directories manually for the moment. Logged out and found all my users in the SDDM login manager. Tried to log in. JustWorks(tm). :o) 4. Ideally, I would like to only install the minimal 389-ds-base package on the server, and then use a lightweight tool to manage my directory instead of the 389 Console that requires a graphical environment. As far as I can tell, there's solutions like PHPLdapAdmin or LDAP Account Manager for the server. Aren't there any simple GUI tools that I can install on my laptop (MacBook Pro running OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 instead of Mac OS) and that enable me to connect to my directory? I found some tools like GQ or JXplorer, but they all seem unmaintained/dead. Any suggestions? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12 _______________________________________________ 389-users mailing list -- 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 389-users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
