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Fedora Directory Server 1.0 Released!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-kid-with-edubuntu dept.

LnxAddct writes "NewsForge is reporting that the first official release of the Fedora Directory Server has been announced. This is good news for members of the open source community longing for an easy to use, enterprise class directory server. Fedora Directory Server is based off of Netscape Directory Server which Red Hat purchased a year ago and released as open source. Screenshots are available on their site." NewsForge is a Slashdot sister site.

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  1. Why the Hell isn't this on the front page? by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why the Hell isn't this on the front page?! Because it damn well should be!

    How many people have been agonizing over fixing problems and having good frontends to OpenLDAP? Directory Services are a Front line, in the Trenches issue! Not to be taken lightly!

  2. Re:command line by ZaMoose · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since it's built on top of OpenLDAP, yes, it obviously comes with ldapadd, ldapsearch and ldapmodify, just about all you need to accomplish the tasks you laid out above.

    Their syntaxes are a bit confusing, but once you get them down, it's very easy to write cronjobs to populate the LDAP directory. If you're looking to migrate an existing userbase from NIS to LDAP, you should take a look at PADL's MigrationTools. Very useful, once you've hacked their shellscripts to match your environment.

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