On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 21:06, Michael Mansour wrote: > I'm not sure how many of you guys have checked this > out, but Novell eDirectory is an excellent directory > server if you're looking for single sign-on > facilities. > > It's not free, but in terms of directory servers it's > the best I found. There was talk of open-sourcing it > some years back when Novell and IBM and Red Hat all > talked about it, but it never eventuated > unfortunately. I've used eDirectory, OpenLDAP, and SunONE (now Sun Java Directory Services), and they all have their good points and bad points. So far SunONE has been the fastest, most reliable, and most scalable. EDirectory is also quite powerful. I recently attended a conference on directories and there was a round-table discussion of "the big four" (being the above named three and Active Directory) -- the basic conclusion was that any of the four would suit your needs to a certain point, and each had their strengths. AD was great if you were running an all MS shop, OpenLDAP was great if you needed an inexpensive solution, and eDirectory and SunONE were the enterprise-level servers that would handle anything you cared to throw at them. I was quite impressed with SunONE when I fired it up on a Celeron 400 256MB test box (running RHL 7.3), and it turned out to be able to handle requests on an 80,000 object database quite easily. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
