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[Roger Oberholtzer]

I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to
install Novell on my server for this :)

BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's biggest
single client. Sounds odd to me.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003
22:08:14+0800 Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:

> Hi Roger !
> 
> Have you tried Novell eDirectory ? I find that it is eminently suitable 
> in environments where the administrators are only familiar with 
> Microsoft stuff (i.e. they need a GUI) , or when the database 
> administrator or sysadmin needs to get up to speed quickly on LDAP. 
> eDirectory runs on Linux, and no, you do not need Netware in your server 
> or anywhere in your network, in order for it to run. It is actually the 
> latest incarnation of NDS and it comes with ConsoleOne, a graphical 
> administration utility. I've written a StepByStep for it. It's quite 
> extensible, and I've found that it is very close to OpenLDAP. I've 
> written an LDIF file that could be imported into OpenLDAP and eDirectory 
> with no modification. If you need to write LDAP applications, Novell 
> provides a Java library that I tested successfully against both OpenLDAP 
> and eDirectory.
> 
> No, I don't work for Novell, and the only reason why I am gushing about 
> it is because it saved my ass a couple of times.
> 
> Regards,
> pascal chong
> 


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