Stephen R Laniel napisał(a):
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.
It seem you're mistaking ome things. 1. OpenLDAP is open source. http://www.openldap.org/2. You probably don't want the directory server alone, but need some kind of workstation and user maintenance system based probably on directory server. Like Novell ZEN Works based on Novell eDirectory. The directory server itself doesn't give you much... just the access to the data stored in directory.