Rob Kampen 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.