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LDAP Tools - Where are they?
fixe asks: "I have spent the last few months up to my eyeballs in LDAP. While I am still hopeful of what LDAP can bring to the table I am admittedly disappointed in the tools, support and documentation surrounding the standard. I have been successful at creating and populating an LDAP directory and even authenticating against it, however I cannot find decent replacements for useradd, userdel, usermod, passwd, etc. Nor have I found any decent LDAP editors or browsers (preferably console or web-based). I am hoping that the Slashdot crowd might be able to shed some light on the subject. Are there any LDAP veterans out there who can reccommend any tools? What is the best way to maintain system account synchronization with an LDAP directory? Or perhaps, is there a more attractive alternative to LDAP?"
Yes, but Microsoft isn't actively pushing LDAP into its developer tools at this point, as I mentioned, they are focusing more on web services. This of course should not imply that I think directories are bad or that LDAP is a bad standard, simply that it hasn't dramatically altered development strategy as it was positioned to.
> My company is going to MS based web services and > .net too
Please do tell me the name of your company,
so that I can boycott it.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
I had same kind of problems with this webserver called apache. It ran just smootly from dsl line and 133MHz pentium with 32mb of memory but shit happens, i installed it bunch of netra t1's and all hell broke loose. Totally crappy uptime of allmost few years and i have to restart the goddamn processes every frigin week while im updating the configurations! Can you belive that! Drives me crazy!!
Same thing with one fileserver on same company. Installed samba to allow our people to add their critical files to network and automatically back those up. Horrible. Just Plain horrible. Im loosing my mind with those frigin opensource projects!
yush