And for all that hard work we promise only a warm sense of well-being and an acknowledgment of your work in the licence. Look at our to do list and if you want to contribute something please do so. If you find errors don't grumble - tell us. Some notes about the projects and our decision if you are interested in this kind of stuff.Īll future versions of this guide will progressively introduce material describing the use of ApacheDS while continuing to document OpenLDAP. All appear excellent projects and together with OpenLDAP provide an embarrassment of riches in the Open Source LDAP space - driving forward capabilities and functionality. There is now the 389 Directory Server (ex-Fedora Directory Server), another University of Michigan derivative, OpenDJ (a fork of OpenDS a Sun-led Java-based LDAP implementation which now appears inactive), and the ApacheDS (Apache Directory) project. It is, however, no longer the only game in town. It is still regarded as the LDAP reference implementation and remains an excellent system with many production implementations, is actively developed and ferociously complex to implement for other than trivial applications. Once upon a time OpenLDAP was the only game in the Open Source LDAP town.

This is our - perhaps pathetic - attempt to create it. We didn't want a tactical solution, we wanted a strategic solution to a whole set of problems, all of which all appeared to be ideally suited to LDAP, but we had to understand stuff. There are innumerable excellent HOWTOs scattered over the Internet, which are great if you need a tactical solution to a particular problem, and are happy to put up with the vaguely uncomfortable feeling that you are entirely dependent on something you don't really understand. The bad news is that IOHO never has so much been written so incomprehensibly about a single topic with the possible exceptions of BIND and. This Guide was born out of our pathetic attempts to understand LDAP, since it promised a veritable nirvana - common source for information, unlimited scalability using a replication model, inherent resilience, fast read performance, fine-grained control over who can do what to what data - the list goes on.

It is meant for newbies, Rocket Scientist wannabees and anyone in between. This Open Source Guide is about LDAP, OpenLDAP 2.x and ApacheDS on Linux and the BSD's (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD).

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