Fedora DS, production oriented blurb

Lately I have been using the new (or in truth, really old) Fedora Directory Server for all of my LDAP needs. Since most everybody looking for scalable authentication and identity management ends up using LDAP eventually, and since I was not happy with slapd (which is stable, but a pain to use), I ended up giving Fedora-DS a try. Am I ever glad I did. Using the same (old) server as ther netscape directory server, with a nice Java based management interface, Fedora DS really does give a good alternative to Microsoft ActiveDirectory or Netscape eDirectory, and at NO CHARGE!

Our new Enomalism project is using it, although you could deploy on slapd if you REALLY wanted to. I have also played with authenticating Typo3 and TurboGears against it too. THe only issue I had was that SSL is not configured out of the box, and can be flaky to get working correctly. There are docs available, but they seemed a bit ambiguous at times. Overall though, much easier to set up than, say, OpenLDAP.

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