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Article:		Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators
Subject:		what about NDS and ADS
Date:		2002-11-03 07:16:35
From:		vic.h
How does LDAP relate to or integrate with NDS and/or ADS?

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• what about NDS and ADS
  2003-06-01 23:01:31  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  NetWare 6 uses eDirectory that has its own LDAP componet.
  
  Just by adding a few extra fields to a users's profile using "Console-1" (ie UID GID, home directory, shell etc) you can use this for authentication.
  
  It Works quite well - if you can run some form of caching (eg nscd) or a more primitive way - eg a startup script that temporary adds those users to the /etc/passwd file.(else the server takes a hammering!!)
  
  We use it on our network and I must admit it works WELL!
  
  I havent tried it with AD but will be doing some tests soon on it.
  
  For Mandrake 9.1 I've created a GUI tool that eases the setup of the clients.
  
  This will be released soon (under GPL).