At Univ. of WA Genome Sciences, we use Active Directory, but we also support a modest desktop environment. As much as I am not a fan of Microsoft, AD just works (even the replication) and, since someone else is responsible for the Windows gear here, I can just think of it as a LDAP/Krb5 store with a few minor extensions.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:29:39AM -0500, Tom Harvill wrote: > > Hello, > > Long time lurker, very infrequent poster - I enjoy this list very much. > > We run multiple clusters in different data centers with a single directory > (LDAP) for general authentication and some user grouping for special > purposes (eg delineating admin users for privileges). We put 'extra' user > data in an RDBMS. > > We currently use 389-DS (aka Fedora Directory Server) and there is some > internal pressure to switch to OpenLDAP. > > 389-DS is working well, we use the multi-master feature. It really hasn't > failed us. > > I'm writing this list to ask: > > - what directory solution do you implement? > - if LDAP, which flavor? > - do you have any opinions one way or another on the topic? > > Because 389-DS has just worked, it's sort-of out of sight and mind. I've > been re-engaging it for a little while and from what I can see it's fairly > well documented (I don't remember this being the case when we originally set > it up 10+ years ago.) I think OpenLDAP doesn't have integrated multi-master > replication - that feature appears to be a bolted on script. > > Thanks in advance for your time, > > Tom > > Tom Harvill > Holland Computing Center > https://hcc.unl.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Skylar _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
