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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?"
Use Console One. It lets you manage your LDAP directory and a whole lot more. Imagine managing users, resources, printers, servers, EVEN files, all from a single Java based tool.
.NET without the bugs and security risks. And, the best part, is it has been shipping for quite a while now, unlike certain other vaporware products.
That's right you can do all this and a whole lot more, using Novell Netware. Even if you don't use Netware, eDirectory (included in Netware or sold separately) allows a lot of these functions from within the Java based Console One. It runs on almost any platform, available today. It even has additional modules that allow things like single signon and more. That's right, all the advantages of
Even if it isn't free, for enterprise use, it is down right cheap!
We are actually using a product from Novell called DirXML to do exactly this. We are syncing RACF/Notes/NDS/(soon NT Domains) and peoplesoft with our "meta directory" (It's actually just NDS but we call it a meta directory). We are pretty early on in the project, but so far things are looking good.