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Best opensource alternative to Active Directory

| Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Check out the 5 best opensource alternative to Active Directory. Directory Servers are used to store all information in the directory. It is primarily used as identity management to authenticate and authorize the Users in the network

OpenDS - Next generation Directory Service
OpenDS is an community project, building a free and comprehensive next generation directory service. OpenDS is designed to address large deployments, to provide high performance, to be highly extensible, and to be easy to deploy, manage and monitor. The OpenDS directory service will ultimately include not just the Directory Server, but also other essential directory-related services like directory proxy, virtual directory, namespace distribution and data synchronization.

389 Directory Server - Powerful OpenSource LDAP
The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. It is hardened by real-world use, is full-featured, supports multi-master replication, and already handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world. OpenLDAP and Fedora Directory Server were both derived from the original University of Michigan slapd project. In 1996 the original developers of slapd became Netscape employees and developed Netscape Directory Server, which is now Fedora Directory Server.

OpenLdap - community developed LDAP software
OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. The OpenLDAP Project was started in 1998 by Kurt Zeilenga. The project started by cloning the LDAP reference source from the University Of Michigan where a long-running project had supported development and evolution of the LDAP protocol.

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