• @jqubed
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    58 months ago

    Currently, there are a few Microsoft products for which the local government cannot find an open-source alternative such as Microsoft Active Directory, as such it is looking to conceive and develop an open source based directory service which will replace this in the future.

    No good alternative for Active Directory? Isn’t that what LDAP does and aren’t there a number of FOSS projects for that? What does Active Directory have that they don’t?

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      Active Directory is a lot more than just an LDAP though. You have GPOs, and Kerberos built-in. It can do Linux and Unix authentication too and some more. Personally it’s one of the few Microsoft products I have a lot of respect for.

    • @mojo_raisin
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      38 months ago

      Apache Directory Studio (UI for LDAP) is pretty good and easy to use.