OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Server
Feb 6th, 2007 by Kostas Georgiou
I’ve been thinking for a while now on which one to use and I still haven’t decided. It seems that RedHat after RHEL5 will be pushing FDS but it’s not clear if it will be a $$$ addon or not. In my testing both fullfil my requirements so it’s not clear which one is better for my needs. Building FDS from the sources is possible now so vendor lockin isn’t a problem but the community seems small at the moment, although if it gets added to fedora things might start moving fast.
FDS is now available in fedora extras :) Unfortunately the rpm depencies aren’t that simple which means that for the RHEL installs I’ll stick with OpenLDAP since I can not afford the $$$
supported RedHat version and the rebuilding/testing of the srpms is going to require time that I don’t have :(
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….