[Novalug] October meeting (10 Oct)

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Sep 24 13:44:41 EDT 2009


A FreeIPA talk would be amazing ;)



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:

> In a nutshell, some of us were deploying it before ActiveDirectory came
> out.  ;)
>
> HINT:  It was the result of Netscape hiring away the original Michigan
> developers
> who developed the original LDAP implementation.
>
> ActiveDirectory is the same codebase + DNS + MIT Kerberos.
>
> OpenLDAP is also based on the same codebase.
>
> FreeIPA is typically what most people would assume for a SOHO network
> coming from Windows.  It's the Port389.org with DNS integration, MIT
> Kerberos
> required for authentication and other things "built-in."  It replaces the
> IETF-
> standard user and related object schema with a very NTuser-centric one
> (i.e., ActiveDirectory).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/389_Directory_Server
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeipa
>
>
> There's not merely an entire "other world" outside of OpenLDAP, but it's
> been
> the primary choice for 10,000+ object enterprises for over a decade.  ;)
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Megan Larko <larkoc@iges.org>
>
> How about ignorance?   I have OpenLDAP on my server; it is what I use.
> That said, I had not heard of Port389.org before your post.   I would not
> even know enough to Google the string.  I would like to learn more.
>
> Sometimes not-knowing is more of an issue than any software strengths or
> weaknesses.  I only found out about dnsmasq service compared with DNS/BIND.
>  So this List does wonders for my educational expansion sometimes.
>
> Keep up the good work everyone!
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