[olug] System management tools

[Bill Brush]

I've refrained from throwing in my two cents, thus far, because I'm
probably not the most objective person, so take this for what it's worth.

I don't know how many users you're talking about in this installation, but
if it's significant, I would encourage you to look at Novell's identity
management solutions.  E-directory is totally cross-platform and you can
get it for $2 per user.  If you want to sync identities between Edirectory
and other apps, Nsure identity manager is available and allows you to sync
between Edir and just about anything that uses an identity type concept.
Identity manager isn't cheap, but it's possible to pick and choose your
components based on what you want to do with it.  It can also synchronise
passwords between directories.

If you're not familiar with Novell's products feel free to contact me
directly.

Bill

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 11/27/2004 12:54:43 AM:

> > I'm going to hope you're using some sort of directory to manage users
> > and naming.
>
> One would hope that, wouldn't they? :( Currently, we are not using any
> directory on the *nix machines. The Windows world uses Active Directory.
A
> tie-in to that would be nice, but somewhat evil as well. Finding a prpoer
> user directory solution is another issue I plan to conquer.