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Red Hat Opens Netscape Directory

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-good-to-share dept.

suezz writes " Eweek is running a story that Redhat is releasing Netscape Directory (LDAP) under the GPL - this is huge at least from my point of view. I know of at least two huge companies that have standardized on Netscape Directory for their web applications."

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  1. Proper replication by Nailer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Asides from Multi master replication (OPenLDAP onyl allows a single master), Netscape directory server solves the 'OpenLDAP being fucking retarded, and holding ACLs to objects in the directory OUTSIDE the directory, therefore replicating objects before their access controls' issue.