I'm in a discussion with my boss about deploying LDAP or something like it across my organization, which has around 200 people. He's advocating a Mac OpenLDAP server, because he says it's a great amalgam of LDAP, Kerberos, and WinBIND. And apparently Apple gives unlimited OpenLDAP site licenses when you buy an XServe, which makes it cheap. It also sounds cool, because you can push apps out to all of your desktops without much trouble at all. And I guess OpenLDAP has lots of cool GUI admin tools for managing a number of machines at once. Alternatively, he's talking about Novell's eDirectory, which he says kicks the butt of any other directory service. The trouble with eDirectory and OpenLDAP, from my perspective, is that they're not open source. Apparently eDirectory is only supported on Novell-approved Linuces like SuSE or possible RHEL. So: can anyone out there recommend a directory server that's 1) as featureful as OpenLDAP; 2) as easy to administer as OpenLDAP; 3) affordable for 200-odd seats; 4) easy to administer; and 5) open source? -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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