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Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services?

Posted by Cliff on from the specialized-turnkey-linux dept.

MarcQuadra asks: "I've been a Linux user since 1998, and I admin Mac OS X machines at work, but I have yet to find a distribution that comes out-of-the-box with modern directory services. Sure, there are guides to kerberize and set up OpenLDAP, but before I can start pushing Linux as an alternative at work I'll need a few things. Are there any distributions out there that can auto-mount SMB shares as home directories without heavy modification? How about a distro that's based on OpenLDAP and can easily be configured with LDAP-enabled SAMBA and Kerberos? Am I missing something, or is this not a priority with the community at-large?"

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  1. Slashdot certainly thinks so. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Am I missing something, or is this not a priority with the community at-large?

    Slashdot certainly thinks so: Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

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  2. First. by ElDuderino44137 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me be the first to welcome our directory service overlords.

    1. Re:First. by sub7 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Let me be the second to welcome all the zealot debian, gentoo, and *BSD users with their flames, toches and troll costumes!

      Game on!

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  3. um.. what? by GonerDoug · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    /me blinks

  4. Full text of this comment in case comment is /.ed. by OccidentalSlashy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "I've been a Linux user since 1998, and I admin Mac OS X machines at work, but I have yet to find a distribution that comes out-of-the-box with modern directory services. Sure, there are guides to kerberize and set up OpenLDAP, but before I can start pushing Linux as an alternative at work I'll need a few things. Are there any distributions out there that can auto-mount SMB shares as home directories without heavy modification? How about a distro that's based on OpenLDAP and can easily be configured with LDAP-enabled SAMBA and Kerberos? Am I missing something, or is this not a priority with the community at-large?"

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  5. Agreed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is these sort of integration features that are needed to make it really fly. What we don't need is to make the Linux user experience more Windows like! Linux needs to be different from Windows, as in offering preferences to people who use it, along with the clearly superior tools, but taking away the good X/Gnome/KDE/other GUI features to make it easier for Windows folks ain't gonna do it!

  6. No kidding.... by Gogela · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course this is a critical problem! If you want people to "switch" to Linux, than the new OS (that's Linux) needs to be able to talk to the old (their old WIN98 machine in the basement, their pocket PC, etc...). It also has to be easy enough for a highly trained monkey to install. If Linux can't do it with a basic install, the masses will NEVER come around. That's just reality, folks.

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  7. Re:Novell eDirectory by Twid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aw come on Martin, use your name in your posts. You're the first hit for "evil zen scientist" in google, it's not like you're hiding anything.

    Hi. :)

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