Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
| From: | Richard Megginson <rmeggins-AT-redhat.com> | |
| To: | pr-AT-lwn.net | |
| Subject: | Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0 | |
| Date: | Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:12:40 -0700 |
We are proud to announce the release of Fedora Directory Server 1.0. This release marks a significant milestone for the open source community, who now have access to the code for the console and administration engine as well as the previously open sourced LDAP engine. This release uses the Apache httpd engine as its administration server, and includes mod_nss - a rewrite of mod_ssl which uses the Mozilla NSS crypto engine. The 1.0 release, in addition to its many other features such as LDAPv3, Multi-Master Replication, and Windows Synchronization, includes support for MD5, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 password hashing, as well as many bug fixes. Fedora Directory Server 1.0 furthers the evolution and democratization of open source software in making this powerful, enterprise proven technology available to all. It is a boon for developers who are now able to port the full package - LDAP engine, console, and admin engine - to many different platforms. If you have used the previous version of Fedora Directory Server, we invite you to try our new version. If you are using another LDAP server, we invite you to try ours and let us know how it compares - we're always looking for ways to improve. Our community is already active and growing, and you are welcome and encouraged to join. There are many ways: joining the mailing lists, reporting bugs, editing documentation, writing scripts/patches/plug-ins, and many more. Try it out! - http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download Our home page - http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/ Join our community! - http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Ways_to_contribute mod_nss - http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Mod_nss Drop us a line! - fedora-directory-users@redhat.com and http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Mailing_Lists
Posted Dec 1, 2005 18:55 UTC (Thu)
by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Licensing#Directo...
Good work Red Hat. Thanks!
PS. Just yesterday a colleague at work asked if we could make our LDAP servers (which are OpenLDAP based) multi-master. Well, we can now :-)
Posted Dec 1, 2005 19:46 UTC (Thu)
by jayavarman (guest, #19600)
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Posted Dec 2, 2005 1:10 UTC (Fri)
by job (guest, #670)
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Posted Dec 2, 2005 16:13 UTC (Fri)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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Posted Dec 2, 2005 18:46 UTC (Fri)
by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
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Posted Dec 3, 2005 19:15 UTC (Sat)
by gvy (guest, #11981)
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So if I remember his rants correctly, why do they pick up and push forward that ancient crap?
The all important licensing, spot on:As usual, nicely done!
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/GPL_Exception_Lic...
Yep, Red Hat deserves all the praise for this move.As usual, nicely done!
This is something I would really appreciate an LWN feature article on! Glance over the capabilities, something about how it's different from OpenLDAP, perhaps some benchmarking, whatever is enough to wet one's appetite to dive into something new.Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
I second that.Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
Yes, a benchmark is in order! Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
I know folks who are working on modularizing ciphers in OpenSSL (actually the patch is stable for half a year or so), and one of them is also Mozilla hacker. He was quite critical of NSS and seems to work on moving our Firefox build from NSS to openssl/gnutls libraries (IIRC).mod_nss? but why?