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OpenLDAP and LDAP Roundup - 29th Nov 2007

LinuxOpenLDAPSuretec Quite a few interesting articles and blog posts today.

Whenever I see a few good ones, I'll do one of these roundup posts.



It's the Writer, Stupid - Do your research on OpenLDAP

OpenLDAP I wish people would do some research on OpenLDAP before making such silly comments, take for example It's the Directory, Stupid:

Right now, the open-source directory server options boil down to Red Hat/Fedora Directory Server, and OpenLDAP, neither of which are positioned to challenge Active Directory.


Depends on what the challenge is, I don't see any....

Then there's OpenLDAP, which some question on scalability grounds, and most coil away from for its rough edges and its lack of anything approaching AD[?]-like integration with Linux distributions.


Yes, maybe using outdated vendor shipped versions, not when using the source or enterprise versions.

If anyone does need reference sites of big OpenLDAP deployments, do please contact Suretec.

OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 5

OpenLDAP Welcome to the fifth issue of OpenLDAP Weekly News (OWN), the unofficial weekly newsletter for the OpenLDAP community.

This will be released every Sunday (or thereabouts), covering the latest goings on in and around the OpenLDAP community.

Summary:

- Latest "stable" OpenLDAP
- Multi-Master Replication configuration example
- Update on Build Farm
- Contributions
- OpenLDAP Documentation updates
- OpenLDAP Development
- Selected user issues and solutions discussed
Continue reading "OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 5"

OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 4

OpenLDAP Welcome to the fourth issue of OpenLDAP Weekly News (OWN), the unofficial weekly newsletter for the OpenLDAP community.

This will be released every Sunday (or thereabouts), covering the latest goings on in and around the OpenLDAP community.

Summary:

- More uptake on OpenLDAP 2.4
- Is OpenLDAP really that compliant?
- Update on Build Farm progress
- OpenLDAP Documentation updates
- How fast can it go!
- OpenLDAP Development
- Selected user issues and solutions discussed
Continue reading "OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 4"

Fedora F8 - upgrade from DVD, surely not?

Fedora For some reason an i386 upgrade via DVD is busted.

Work arounds seem to be upgrading by YUM either by pointing to the DVD or online repos.

See:

F8 - upgrading impossible
and Fedora 8 installed. My report.


Hmmmm......Worth the effort??...??

UPDATE:

Yes it is. Very fast.

Writing this on F8 x86_64, whilst one of our laptops is being upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 via yum

OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 3

OpenLDAP Welcome to the third issue of OpenLDAP Weekly News (OWN), the unofficial weekly newsletter for the OpenLDAP community.

This will be released every Sunday (or thereabouts), covering the latest goings on in and around the OpenLDAP community.

Summary:

- OpenLDAP 2.4.6 community feedback
- OpenLDAP 2.4 Admin Guide a success
- Update on build farm
- Community contribution to OpenLDAP
- Selected user issues and solutions discussed
Continue reading "OpenLDAP Weekly News Issue 3"

OpenLDAP Documentation: The community is finally contributing!

OpenLDAP Maybe our docs were in too bad a state before, but since all the re-working for the 2.4 admin, people are actually reading it and sending in patches!

3 patches in 2 days?!?!? Here's the proof:

Subject: Minor patch to replication docs
Subject: refint overlay doc contribution
Subject: Dynamic Lists doc contribution to the admin guide

Keep up the good work! It is really appreciated.

Gavin.

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