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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com