On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:38 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > "William (Bill) E. T." <wtriest at chemistry.ohio-state.edu> > wrote: > > One of our strategic goals for this year is to switch from > > NIS to LDAP (which hasn't happened so far due to some > ancient > > Unix boxes). Which should I investigate first OpenLDAP or > FDS? > > Can some one point me to pro's and cons? (links very much > > appreciated) > > FDS is NsDS, which has been a _long_time_ and is well > trusted. It's synchronization with ADS is much, much better, > and removes the need to deal with a set of "glue together" > services just to get such. The included certificate server > is a nice touch, although being truly open, you can still use > Kerberos and other authentication systems as well. > > But probably the biggest boost to why NsDS is more viable for > most enterprises than OpenLDAP is Red Hat's license of it. > Red Hat really tried to make OpenLDAP work in its enterprise > services model, but in the end, it was well worth their > bother to pay $20M to open source NsDS. Red Hat is behind it > 100%, and that includes charging $15,000/server for what is > free in the same FDS you can download. ---- OK - I'm intrigued...I just signed up for their mail list to see what the questions/problems are. Craig