[Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?

[Nathan C. Smith]

OpenLDAP
 
How big is the company.  Active Directory is almost overkill for smallish
companies and required by Microsoft mostly for Exchange 2000 and up.  You
can emulate a lot of the features of AD with Samba and OpenLDAP etc.
 
 
-Nate


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From: Donovan Skarin [mailto:n3ophyt3 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:22 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] Active Directory equivalent?


I'm working on a project for my Associate's Degree, in which my group has
been given a hypothetical company with heavily outdated hardware, and a
crappy budget with which to improve the situation. In the interest of saving
lots of our budget from licensing costs, we are going with a Linux
environment. We pretty much know for a fact is that the people we present
this to are going to grill us on all kinds of things, because we will be the
first group to break away from a Microsoft environment. The main item that
we don't have a ready answer to is Active Directory. Are there any
equivalent features for an all-Linux network, and how do they compare with
AD? 

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