Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some
> > information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department
> > concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and
> > email/collaboration).
> >
> > An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like.
>
> The only part of that debate you can't easily win is the much vaunted
> "collaboration" services.  

Oompfh. Big words.

Well: I'm looking for a ready-to-run Active Directory replacement, 
with group policies. (I think you know about all the nice 
network-wide configuration work one can does with group policies, 
don't you?)

Integrating OpenLDAP (or RH-LDAP, for that matter), Kerberos, 
cfengine, and a few other tools to achieve the same functionality, 
is not for the faint of heart. Especially when it's a hassle to use 
Kerberos authentication for many services.

While I'm an died-in-the-whool Unix user (I don't even use one of 
these newfangled desktop thingies like KDE or GNOME and am satisfied 
with fvwm and Emacs), I have to admit that a centralized way to 
manage all servers and desktop, with system- and user(!)-specific 
profiles, would be a great thing to have.

Care to name an Open-Source replacement for AD that is already 
integrated, and where I don't have to do the integration myself?

	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod				Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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