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

Directories are dead in the water

[Ars-Fartsica]

Yes, there are people using LDAP, there are even people using X.500 - but more or less these technologies have not altered IT thinking in the dramatic way they were positioned. Arguably the XML-based approach of web services is more timely - its hard to make an argument of listing another protocol on an isolated port to provide a solitary service.

There also doesn't appear to be much corporate interest - Microsoft has moved its mindshare strategies to web services, leaving the only big backer of LDAP being Novell - not really a key industry player at this point.

Uhh.... what's LDAP?

[Stiletto]

Anyone care to tell us what LDAP is and who uses it? Or at least what does the acronym stand for?

Yeah...

[A nonymous Coward]

Google's your friend.

Re:There's NDS DAMN STRAIGHT!

[jafac]

Technically it's great - but from a realistic point of view, I would forget about it. It's obvious that Microsoft has NDS targeted for termination. And nobody seems interested in stopping them. No sense in investing in what's obviously going to be dead technology. Unfortunately.