[Fedora-directory-users] features

[Rich Megginson]

Dinil Divakaran wrote:

>
> Greetings !!
>
> Before going for Fedora Directory Server, I thought of going through 
> the feature list to see what all additional features
> are supported when compared to OpenLDAP.
>
> Though the feature list and FAQ says about many features
> supported by Fedora Directory Server (like multi-master replication, 
> nested roles, cascading using hubs etc), they

http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Features

> don't provide information about some common features that
> are supported by OpenLDAP. Some of such features include,

All of these features and more are documented here - 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/
A quick glance at the table of contents for these docs will give you a 
lot of information about these and many more features.

> support for SNMP,

Yes.

> password hashing,

Yes - crypt, SHA, SSHA, and (new in Fedora DS) MD5.

> support of LDAP search
> filters such as presence, equality, inequality, sub-string, 
> approximate and boolean operators,

Yes.

> support for consumer-
> initiated replication,

Not exactly.  However, Fedora DS can be configured to have a searchable 
changelog (cn=changelog) which can be polled periodically.  In addition, 
FDS supports persistent search.

> support for supplier-initiated
> replication,

Yes.

> support for Digital certificates,

Yes.  Clients can use certificates to authenticate to FDS, and admins 
can configure mapping the cert subject DN to the user's LDAP entry.

> support for
> XMLDAP gateway and whether the Directory server support
> XML for integration with external applications.

I think you mean DSMLv2.  Yes, FDS includes a DSMLv2 gateway.

> XML and
> XMLDAP are not supported by OpenLDAP too, I believe.
>
> May be most of the above features were trivial to the
> Directory Server; but still, I would like to know whether
> these features are supported before going for Fedora Directory Server.
>
> Can anyone please help ?
>
> Note: I am not a member of this mailing list; kindly put
>       a CC to me.
>
> - Dinil
>
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