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Mandriva Directory Server 2.3.0 available
| From: | Cedric Delfosse <cdelfosse-AT-mandriva.com> | |
| To: | lwn-AT-lwn.net | |
| Subject: | Mandriva Directory Server 2.3.0 available | |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:19:12 +0200 | |
| Message-ID: | <1207729152.4189.13.camel@lolita.localnet> |
Hello, Mandriva Directory Server 2.3.0 is available for download at http://mds.mandriva.org The Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) is a Free Software project that features: * user authentication and management thanks to LDAP * an extensible, nice looking and AJAX powered PHP web interface called MMC (Mandriva Management Console), provided with 5 modules: * Users and groups management * SAMBA accounts and shares management * DNS/DHCP management * Email delivery management * Web proxy blacklist management * a Python dedicated management API for LDAP, SAMBA, and SQUID (core of the MDS and the MMC) * a policy system, that will allow to define users right on network ressource New features and improvements are: * The MMC infrastructure has been updated and is now the main framework of another Mandriva product called "Pulse 2". Pulse 2 is intended to provide application and update deployment mechanisms for large to very large organizations. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ target computers spread on many sites. * Account provisioning from multiple sources (LDAP, databases, ...) For example, an external LDAP or a GLPI (http://glpi-project.org) account database can both be used to authenticate and create new users in the MDS. * SAMBA shares and SAMBA service management improvement. To test the MDS, a VMware image based on Mandriva Corporate Server 4 is available on the download page: http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/Download Installation instructions are available on the documentation page: http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/Documentation Upgrade instructions are available on the upgrade procedures page: http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/upgradeProcedure Details on changes are available on the release notes page: http://mds.mandriva.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes -- Cedric Delfosse Mandriva / Linbox 152, rue de Grigy - Technopole Metz 57070 METZ - FRANCE tel: +33 (0)3 87 50 87 90 http://mandriva.com
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Mandriva Directory Server 2.3.0 available
Posted Apr 14, 2008 17:15 UTC (Mon) by Velmont (subscriber, #46433) [Link]
Interesting. I'm going to set up a network with mostly Windows-clients now. Right now we are using LDAP and Samba, but it is «home grown» and horribly hairy. So I want something nice. What else is there than this? Fedora Directory Server, and other nice systems? Doesn't need a fancy GUI, but oh my does it need to be proven and robust. And probably extensible.