Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: Hi! Some service (software) companies have been telling us 'not to use ldap for user authentication' instead they recommend us to use Microsoft Active Directory, this because, they say, LDAP is problematic, talking about

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

So, you're telling me that ADS/LDAP do the same thing you can do just with LDAP (without the interface) .. i mean, a directory service. Groups, rights and security is manage by the OS itself ¿?. What Active Directory does is to give you the facility to manage all those things together? But with

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

Please don't top post Germana Oliveira schreef: So, you're telling me that ADS/LDAP do the same thing you can do just with LDAP (without the interface) .. i mean, a directory service. Groups, rights and security is manage by the OS itself ¿?. What Active Directory does is to give you the

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

I have been searching for some tools (free software tools) and i have found some: Apache Directory Server: looks good but i dont like the java stuff. Apache Directory Server is an open source LDAP directory server implemented in java. GOsa: looks very good and development in php, could be a good

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

Hi germana, I have been searching for some tools (free software tools) and i have found some: Maybe these links will interest you also: http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/ and http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ regards, mj -- www.muzieknoteren.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

Germana Oliveira wrote: Hi! Some service (software) companies have been telling us 'not to use ldap for user authentication' instead they recommend us to use Microsoft Active Directory, this because, they say, LDAP is problematic, talking about domain, and hard to use - for example is very

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

We are really convince that OpenLDAP is way better choice than Active Directory, most if we already decide that Debian is going to be our Servers OS... i have been googling about openLdap problems and found nothing very difficult or weird, most of then are user problems: bad configurations, etc.

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

i just forgot something. AD manage the (user) permissions and groups stuff: Like - this user can access to this printer or that user can not use pen drive - and i haven`t found yet something like that in free Software, or something similar in LDAP or with LDAP (openLdap) Someone have some idea

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:31:57PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: i just forgot something. AD manage the (user) permissions and groups stuff: Like - this user can access to this printer or that user can not use pen drive - and i haven`t found yet something like that in free Software, or