Linux network resource management?

[cwk9]

Novell has Netware and Microsoft has Active directory but what does Linux have? Is there any software for Linux that can provide a single point of administration, authentication, and storage for users, group and computer objects.

[harbir]

Please can you be more descriptive, as i working on linux and we solve ur problem, at least we will try.

[Uhu]

Try a google search on LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An OpenScource implementation can be found here http://www.openldap.org/

Maybe that is what you are looking for.

[linuxguy99]

Novell has Netware and Microsoft has Active directory but what does Linux have? Is there any software for Linux that can provide a single point of administration, authentication, and storage for users, group and computer objects.

I know of two:

LinuxConf: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/ and Webmin http://www.webmin.com/

WebMin uses a web interface using SSL (pretty nifty) while LinuxConf can be used from a command line via SSH or from a GUI front end.

Next this document might be helpful for administration via SSH: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/sssh5.html

And the LinuxConf FAQ might prove useful: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/howto.hc?projet=linuxconf

Hope this helps.

[cwk9]

Thanks for the links. I’ll have to do some more reading but it seems LDAP is what I had in mind. In light of that is LDAP a viable alternative to Novell’s NDS or Active Directory? Can it handle most of the same task or am I way off here?

[Uhu]

I don't have any experiences using LDAP as yet. But at my company we are planning to replace our NT-Domains using LDAP based on Linux in the next future. So I think, it should be a viable alternative.

[linuxguy99]

In light of that is LDAP a viable alternative to Novell’s NDS or Active Directory?

This link might be useful: http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1.html

And the administrator guide: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin21/

Hope this helps.