Re: Red Hat Directory Server

Manuel Amador <[email protected]> writes:

> El mié, 08-06-2005 a las 00:53 +0300, Mike Jackson escribió:
>> Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> >>2. NDS always has had very mature administration tools, whereas with
>> >>OpenLDAP you're practically stuck with the ldap command-line tools.
>> >>That is simply unacceptable in a corporate environment.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Your are argueing based on outdated information. You can write to the
>> > config and schema backends of OpenLDAP by means of ldif, thus any ldap
>> > editor can be used to change configuration and add schemas at runtime.
>> 
>> This is only in the 2.3 version that was released, what, yesterday? 
>> Don't get me wrong, it's a definite improvement, but it was only put 
>> there because they felt the heat of the NDS open-sourcing coming on.
>
> Yes, and to make matters worse, no OSS administrative tool that I know
> of at least supports this.
>
> Dieter: Installing OpenLDAP has always been like installing a SQL
> server: you wouldn't expect your personnel to manage your data with SQL
> text commands, wouldn't you?  Recent additions do not change this one
> bit.

I use JXplorer or web2ldap to administer the cn=config backend of
OpenLDAP. 

-Dieter

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