Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I've been watching the discussion and read the RHEL docs about IPA and thought "At Last" something that brings together all the bits for the little guy. Now it appears the RH is going to drop the ball. I have tried OpenLDAP and currently have a CentOS-DS running but am missing the bits that glue it all together. The actual core services (LDAP (either variant) Kerberos PAM samba etc) are simple enough to install on CentOS but the stuff that makes it "just work" is very difficult for me to get my head around and thus I've never actually got a setup working well enough to risk on my clients.
I have started with SME: http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
This is a good NT Domain + equiv on Centos 4.7 and they have Centos 5.2 (I hope now 5.3) in beta.
I have not looked enough into their roadmap to see what is being done with LDAP...
Another effort on Fedora is Amahi.org. This is more a home product with a WorkGroup orientation. The inclusion of home apps like streaming music makes it very attractive.
SME is a well organized effort, originally back? by Mitel. Amahi started as a one-man effort (though the one man behind it has impressive credentials) and has developed a 'plugin' community.
Craig well knows the efforts of a couple of k12 guys to get some SAMBA integration together (http://majen.net/smbldap/). This seems to have stagnated.
I am hoping that SME continues to evolve. Their VoIP version is the perfect place to get serious with LDAP.
Has anyone looked at the version of ClarkConnect now in beta? This is similar to SME but perhaps a more modern approach (and with separate free/commercial versions...). The blurb claims that the initial setup provides LDAP authentication for easy expansion. That's something I've thought every Linux distro should have had for years, but I don't know if it actually works.