Re: [K12OSN] fedora ltsp ldap

[Brook Humphrey <bah webmedic net>]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:04 am, Eric Harrison wrote:
>
> About the only things that I can think of that are _not_ in our LDAP
> directory are our DNS and our firewall rules.
>
> It is a godsend.

I agree about the godsend part from what i have read.

>
> Steep learning curve. It is trivial once you pass the hump, but
> getting there can be rough.

this I have also heard to be true.
>
> The tools are too admin-centric. I live and die by the command
> line tools, but I don't expect the newbie admin to whip up a
> perl script to generate a LDIF file & load it with ldapadd.
>
> But as more and more people use LDAP, the better the tools and
> integration. I just love how well Samba 3.0 integrates with
> a LDAP backend.
>
> Over the last couple of months, I have run into fewer problems
> with packages that won't load, for example, because they try to
> run adduser or parse /etc/passwd or make some other false
> assumption.
>
> It would help significantly if the standard user admin tools,
> such as adduser, "just worked" if the system is configured to
> use LDAP on the backend. Samba managed to accomplish this
> magic.
>
> The biggest hole is the front-end. I still have not found a
> front-end that I think is truly useful for a novice admin.
>
> -Eric

Well  I would not call myself a novice admin and ldap would most likely not be 
as hard as I think it sounds but still I would want to spend a good week on 
it. 

By the way have you guys used it for virtual domain's and hosting a few 
websites? If so how well does that work. I would be using apache for the web. 
I already know that my ftp and email support ldap so that is not an issue. 

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