[ILUG] ldap vs. nis...

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> Has gq improved over the last 2 years?

i didn't use it 2 years ago. but it is the best of the gnome ones i
tried. stable, ssl works, you can browse the schemas, etc..

it doesn't yet handle the way LDAP stores non-ASCII chars (such as
accented chars, etc..). neither does it handle write referrals
properly either.

but all in all, it's quite good.

> And what's directory_administrator?

LDAP user/group admin tool, with emphasis on ease-of-use. ie it has
wizards for creating new users. and it only delas with users and
groups - doesn't allow general LDAP browsing and doesn't show you all
hte attributes of users/groups. kind of thing you might give a
helpdesk to do password resets, or HR people for creating new users.
(if you were a big unix shop, and your HR people used Unix. :) )

>  And I don't suppose you know of a _good_, free Win32 LDAP GUI?

nope. sorry.

> VIM has support for LDAP now?  So you can browse and modify
> your LDAP database?  And the database schema too?

:)

> Or do you actually _like_ using ldapadd, ldapmodify & friends?

they are fun.

a question:

- has anyone gotten SASL working with openldap?
- kerberos: is it worth it?

> Later,
> Kenn

--paulj