Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I've been watching the discussion and read the RHEL docs about IPA and
>> thought "At Last" something that brings together all the bits for the
>> little guy. Now it appears the RH is going to drop the ball.
>> I have tried OpenLDAP and currently have a CentOS-DS running but am
>> missing the bits that glue it all together. The actual core services
>> (LDAP (either variant) Kerberos PAM samba etc) are simple enough to
>> install on CentOS but the stuff that makes it "just work" is very
>> difficult for me to get my head around and thus I've never actually
>> got a setup working well enough to risk on my clients.
>
> I have started with SME: http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
>
> This is a good NT Domain + equiv on Centos 4.7 and they have Centos 5.2
> (I hope now 5.3) in beta.
>
> I have not looked enough into their roadmap to see what is being done
> with LDAP...
>
> Another effort on Fedora is Amahi.org. This is more a home product with
> a WorkGroup orientation. The inclusion of home apps like streaming
> music makes it very attractive.
>
> SME is a well organized effort, originally back? by Mitel. Amahi
> started as a one-man effort (though the one man behind it has impressive
> credentials) and has developed a 'plugin' community.
>
> Craig well knows the efforts of a couple of k12 guys to get some SAMBA
> integration together (http://majen.net/smbldap/). This seems to have
> stagnated.
>
> I am hoping that SME continues to evolve. Their VoIP version is the
> perfect place to get serious with LDAP.
Has anyone looked at the version of ClarkConnect now in beta? This is
similar to SME but perhaps a more modern approach (and with separate
free/commercial versions...). The blurb claims that the initial setup
provides LDAP authentication for easy expansion. That's something I've
thought every Linux distro should have had for years, but I don't know
if it actually works.
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Les Mikesell
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