How Linux Beats Windows in ID Management Ease

Amy Kucharik writes "Fed up with Windows systems management? A Linux conversion may be your ticket away from the daily hassles of managing and licensing domain controllers and related software devices. In this tip, Paul Murphy discusses the evolution of LDAP and how using it, along with Linux, can make an administrator's job easier."

Comments

First LDIF!

[Anonymous Coward]

dn: uid=anonymous, ou=linux, o=slashdot.org
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slashComment: First Post!
slashModLevel: +5 Funny

Re:First LDIF!

[michael path]

dn:uid=anonymous, ou=linux, o=slashdot.org
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objectclass: troll

take that!

Re:choir

[op12]

Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here.

Re:First POst

[Anonymous Coward]

not sure if you're loose, but you definately lost.

Re:Gimme a brake -- you're just figuring this out

[gstoddart]

Gimme a brake

duh ...

That would be break

Duh. =)

Feature Request

[HMC CS Major]

I wish that Windows NT included some easy interface to LDAP for large corporations to manage all of their workstations ... like a directory. It could be used for logins, privileges, login scripts, mapping drives, controlling group policy, and even integrate with the mail and calendaring system. It would be one big active directory. That would be nice.

Re:Feature Request

[afidel]

Yes, and as the Windows 2000 Server splashscreen keeps reminding me it's built on NT (new technology) technology!

My new GNU/Linux Distribution

[Anonymous Coward]

I am pretty sure I am not the only Linux veteran irritated by the increase in its user-friendliness, and mourning the loss of the good olde Linux, accessible only to those who enjoy kernel debugging. This is why I have decided to launch a new GNU/Linux distribution which requires extensive knowledge of Linux and of the computer system's internals.

The distribution shall be available in the combination of a floppy and a CD-ROM image. Why not only a CD-ROM image? I thought it would be a little too easy, and know you think that too; the CD-ROM is only accessible if you can read it, and this is why I provide a floppy: it contains an assembler and a linker, all you need to write a CD-ROM file system driver (and a partition driver to install the files). Here, I'll give you a head start: ISO 9660 specification. Don't expect every task to be so simple, I won't be giving the answers each time.

The distribution is somewhat minimalistic, but can do pretty much everything one demands from a modern computer.

Obviously, all tasks are accomplished through the command line interface (no GUI is provided).

A Web browser isn't included (as if you expected one to be anyway), just telnet to port 80 of the Web sites to surf the Internet.

As for an email client, telnet to port 25 and learn how to use your email server.

For FTP capabilities, you may telnet to port 21 and use the standard commands.

As I have demonstrated, this is a very versatile and capable GNU/Linux distribution, meanwhile staying available only to real men who back up to FTP and not to tape (to ensure this, legacy support for tape drives is excluded).

Since potential users may have varying levels of experience, I am hence providing different versions of the distribution:

• a version without a TCP/IP stack, because I knew some among you would complain it would be too easy otherwise, so you can write it yourself from the floppy;
• a boxed set for you novices out there, including the floppy, the CD-ROM, a modified version of telnet supporting Connection: Keep-Alive, and ssh for tinfoil hat-wearers -- and because I'm generous, I've added to the package a printed manual featuring the ISO 9660, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS and FTP specifications.

Your suggestions are welcome, and I hope you enjoy using my GNU/Linux distribution.

Re:My new GNU/Linux Distribution

[Linker3000]

It'll be printed as a 30-part article in Byte for you to type in.

Re:How's this different?

[rylin]

One is Free, the other is easy to use.

OpenLDAP

[glamslam]

OpenLDAP is a snap! Its so easy to use, even a 10-year unix veteran can get it integrated with some systems assuming everything is setup properly and has been designed for integrating in this manner!

Thanks SearchEnterpriseLinux.com!

That is true

[mrRay720]

I don't even know what Linux is, I just come here for the pretty colours.

Re:How's this different?

[rylin]

When you're on crack, everything's funny!

Or so I've heard.

So Wrong

[WindBourne]

First it is not LDAP, but LAPD. Everybody knows that it is the LAPD that beats on others. So now, Paul is haveing the LAPD help Linux beat Windows. Cool. Can not wait until the law suit.