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title: What directory server does Eldapo use? link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/what-directory-server-does-eldapo-use/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 146 created: 2010/07/08 15:02:02 created_gmt: 2010/07/08 15:02:02 comment_status: open post_name: what-directory-server-does-eldapo-use status: publish post_type: post

What directory server does Eldapo use?

Someone asked this awhile ago, and I kind of avoided answering because I was actually in the middle of multiple trial installations at the time.

Right now I’m running the 389 Directory Server in the lab at home as my “stable” LDAP service for the family.

There have been a number of major improvements introduced in the 389 Directory that will show up or have already shown up in the commercial Red Hat Directory Server. One of these, the elimination of the allidsthreshhold, goes back at least 5 years. Another, support for Simple Paged Results Control, came in last August with version 1.2.1 (I’ve touched on Simple Paged Results before, and consider it a really essential feature for general purpose directory servers — a feature sadly still not supported by Sun/Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition). Simple Paged Results support is now available in Red Hat Directory 8.2 as well, for those who want/need paid support.

At work we’ve got a a mix of products in production: Sun DS 5.2, “Oracle” DSEE 7, Oracle Internet Directory R3 and Active Directory 2003. My personal workstation at the office is running a copy of 389 Directory that replaced an ancient install of OpenLDAP. There’s a test virtual machine with Oracle Virtual Directory out there somewhere as well. Finally, I’ve also got Apache Directory running in another virtual machine. Until recently my thinking was that enterprise directory services would inevitably move to DSEE, but given the very strong contributions of the Red Hat Directory development team I’m reconsidering. Given the high degree of integration between 389/Red Hat Directory with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), they certainly deserve another serious look.