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?"

Comments

There's NDS

[cscx]

Or perhaps, is there a more attractive alternative to LDAP?

Novell's NDS works very well. Heck, even CNN (scroll to bottom of page) uses it!

JAVA LDAP BROWSER

[Wolfier]

Is what we are using.

To get it:

Go to google, search for "ldap browser" and click "I'm feeling lucky".

Enjoy.

eDirectory

[CounterZer0]

eDirectory (formerly NDS) by Novell...is fully LDAP compliant, and comes with a whole bunch of tools and stuff of that nature. And it even runs on Linux / Solaris / AIX / Tru64 / Netware and NT! It's not 'open source', but it can be free as in beer for developers. So far, it's been remarkably stable and easy to use on Linux.

LDAP stands for...

[skia]

...Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, for those unenlightened who read /. and are frustrated by never getting acronyms expanded for them.

It is an open-standard protocol for accessing information services.

more can be found here.