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John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
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John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:48:19 +0900
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Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> We are an openldap shop. We use an in-house php app to manage accounts 
> etc. Our ldap servers run FreeBSD, but I am in the process of migrating 
> to Centos/SL servers.
> 
> I found the openldap server packages  included in RHEL5 to be out of 
> date and seriously broken. Especially master-slave replication is 
> impossible to get running reliably. The included Berkeley db version is 
> a bit buggy too (the openldap package indludes it's own bdb version 
> separate from the older one in db4.rpm)
> Also, most overlays are not included in the RHEL version.
> 
> I am now maintaining my own openldap 2.3.43 rpm's. My impression is that 
> RHEL is only interested in keeping the client side stable and expects 
> you to run RDS for the server side.
> 
> So either go FDS or start to maintain your own openldap packages.

I think there's also CentOS Directory Service.


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