Unfortunately, it's not like you can write a couple of new applications and you're done. It would take some commitment by a distribution such as Fedora to bring the small bits together.
Right now, it requires a lot of integration work, but works pretty well.
Most tools are there already, but not designed or tested to work well together. And it's because very few people go through the pain of setting up an LDAP-based LAN.
I have set up some LDAP-based LAN's and I think that, although not straightforward as installing Linux and clicking Next, Next, Next, i'ts not as difficult as it could seem.
Creating users in LDAP is hard. The usual tools such as useradd and system-config-users should be teached how to do it. I still couldn't figure out how to change the posixAccount password in LDAP without using smbpasswd.
You can use "libuser", which supports several backends, being LDAP on of then. I'm using luseradd/lusermod/luserdel/lgroupadd/lgroupdel/lgroupmod from libuser to manage my LDAP users and its work very well. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
