Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services?

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 18, 2005 @10:51AM 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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Sure, WinXp by ironghost · 2005-02-18 10:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Why not go the way of the market and just go with ADS?

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No answer at LinuxWorld either by sammyo · 2005-02-18 11:51 · Score: 1, Troll

This was asked (actually a subset) at a LinuxWorld BOF this week. There seemed to be a lot of knowledgeable folk there, and the answer was... a lot of glazed stares. One guy said he'd been around the floor all day asking this query and found no real solution. Unfortunatly Linux is still for Hax0rs.