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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?"
Ahh, and so goes the struggle of Open Source.
It all works fine on someone's home machine, because it's never under any load. Try to put it into a moderate production environment, though, and it all falls down go boom.
I used to hear similar comments about open source NIS implementations 3-4 years back.
So you either start load testing it yourself, understand why it's broken and fix it. Or go with a commercial product that has already been through this process.