Look - LDAP is not for everyone or every application. It has its place. Aside from the original intent (X.500) being email/phone book look up LDAP (directory servers) is a fantastic tool for user provisioning and identity management.
To answer the question of LDAP tools, where are they? some of the best are the command line tools available on Solaris from the install. You can also download and install iplanet to get the binaries, ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapdelete. (Just don't use that directory if you don't want to. The binaries will work against any LDAPv3 compliant server.)
Oracle also makes a good directory server, Oracle Internet Directory (also available for free download in both UNIX and intel versions). This server utilizes ldapadd (which is simply ldapmodify -a). It also includes ldapbind for testing a bind, good tool.
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Look - LDAP is not for everyone or every application. It has its place. Aside from the original intent (X.500) being email/phone book look up LDAP (directory servers) is a fantastic tool for user provisioning and identity management. To answer the question of LDAP tools, where are they? some of the best are the command line tools available on Solaris from the install. You can also download and install iplanet to get the binaries, ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapdelete. (Just don't use that directory if you don't want to. The binaries will work against any LDAPv3 compliant server.) Oracle also makes a good directory server, Oracle Internet Directory (also available for free download in both UNIX and intel versions). This server utilizes ldapadd (which is simply ldapmodify -a). It also includes ldapbind for testing a bind, good tool.