Re: Anyone using OpenDirectory?

[Jeremy Hallum <jhallum umich edu>]

We will be enabling this in the Summer for our RHEL/ OS X environment.  
I field tested everything in March on a G4, and it was pretty slick.  I 
have been using OpenLDAP served from a Solaris 8 box to our combined OS 
X/Solaris/RHEL environment for about 24 months, and as we are phasing 
out Solaris, it seemed logical to dive for Open Directory.   We will 
still have to use non OS X tools to enter non-OS X schema (like 
automount), but I'm excited about the simplification of the rest of it.  
It's really trivial to make a RHEL box see an Open Directory server (I 
couldn't believe how easy it was).

-jeremy


Doug Stewart wrote:

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> Howdy all:
> Is anyone using OpenDirectory as a stand-in for NIS in a RedHat/Solaris
> environment?  Apple's admin tools are very compelling, particularly for
> our Mac clients and we'd love to leverage the OD setup to give our RH,
> Solaris (and even Windows) clients an LDAP-based single sign-on.  Are
> there perils/gotchas that I should be on the lookout for?  I'm about to
> reboot my RHEL 4.3 desktop, having just enabled LDAP authentication, so
> I'll see what happens here in the short run, but I'd love advice and
> tips from anyone so inclined to give 'em.
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> Thanks.
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