Bryan wrote:
This question is probably completely obvious to those more versed in
LDAP, which I am not. And since I couldn't find an answer to this in
the Wiki, I thought that it didn't hurt to ask.
So what are the advantages of using a "specialized" LDAP server,
whether Fedora/Red Hat Directory Server, Apache Directory, Open
Directory, etc., versus using just OpenLDAP? Increased functionality?
Heightened and more security measures?
Fedora Directory Server was called Netscape Directory Server until just
recently. It was the first LDAPv3 server in the world, afaik. The code
was commercially developed and tested for ~8 years and has been in use
in large scale deployments all over the world for a long time. It has
contained features for many years which OpenLDAP project is just now
considering, e.g. multi-master replication, ability to alter the
configuration of the running server via LDAP, in-tree access control, etc.
Fedora is not what I would call a "specialized" LDAP server, it's just a
full-featured, standards based, general purpose, high quality LDAP
server. OpenLDAP is, in contrast, very specialized, having a lot of
different types of backends in the recent versions. You can do some
really tricky stuff with OpenLDAP that you can't do with Fedora, if you
need that sort of tricky stuff in your architecture.
And the main difference for a new person like yourself is the amount of
available documentation. Fedora is professionally and extensively
documented, whereas OpenLDAP documentation is very scarce and terse.
Mike
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