Re: Making LDAP easier to use (Was: rawhide report: 20060522 changes)

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2006/5/24, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:13 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
> > For simple multi-machine nss nis is still, by far, the simplest to setup
> > and maintain.
>
> LDAP sure isn't an easy beast to configure and run, expecially
> if you need TLS and replication.
>
> But this is largely a distribution issue: the default configuration
> in Fedora does not come close to what would be needed to setup an
> LDAP authentication server.  And there are no system-config-* tools
> for newbies to use.  I've had similar experience with other Linux
> distributions.
>
> Linux is now the only OS that doesn't provide out of the box
> authentication and directory services for corporate environments.
> Windows got there six years ago with ActiveDirectory and MacOSX
> does it beautifully with NetInfo and its nice OpenLDAP integration.
>
> As an administrator, I'm particularly embarassed to show my
> customers the tools I use to run their UNIX accounts and
> Samba domain controller.

You might get involved and help write such tools. That would replace
embarrassment with pride.

Rahul

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i second that a tool that makes it "intuitive" to setup ldap
authentication and later maybe even "single sign on" possible would
make a nice enhancement for fedora.

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

p.s. id maybe help with python hacking there once a project is set up.

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