LDAP, which Microsoft is "extending and embracing" in Active Directory, is a great alternative for authentication. I am currently knee deep in deploying an iPlanet LDAP server. I work in a small (100 user) department in a university and we are going to use LDAP to eventually replace NIS+. Meanwhile the university IT department is plodding along with a proposed site wide Active Directory deployment. The great thing about LDAP is that it is platform independant. We have Windows, Mac OS and UNIX boxes that will be able to access data stored in our LDAP server. I recently read that Microsoft was petitioning to "extend" the capabilities of LDAP, look out!
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LDAP, which Microsoft is "extending and embracing" in Active Directory, is a great alternative for authentication. I am currently knee deep in deploying an iPlanet LDAP server. I work in a small (100 user) department in a university and we are going to use LDAP to eventually replace NIS+. Meanwhile the university IT department is plodding along with a proposed site wide Active Directory deployment. The great thing about LDAP is that it is platform independant. We have Windows, Mac OS and UNIX boxes that will be able to access data stored in our LDAP server. I recently read that Microsoft was petitioning to "extend" the capabilities of LDAP, look out!