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From: Mark Femal (markbeantree.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 14:58:15 CDT

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    Hi all,

    I'm starting a fresh installation of Solaris 8 for a given environment and
    I'm evaluating whether or not to use iPlanet Directory Server. I
    noticed v4.13 came with my Solaris 8 package, but there were security
    issues with that release (it is still shipping at least with version 7/01
    which I just received last week!). So, my option is to either start
    with 4.15 or go to version 5.0. All the docs I can find (some very good
    BTW) from Sun and other sources (i.e. blueprints already mentioned on
    this list) use 4.xx to explain how to setup LDAP with Solaris. Although
    there is information on how to transition from 4.xx to 5.xx, I don't want
    to install 4 and then go through the transition if I don't have to
    because it seems that version 5 changed quite a few things as well so it
    may take quite a bit of learning to do "comparable" steps from the old
    documentation.

    Does anyone know of any good sources of information for version 5 for
    setting it up under solaris? Anyone use iPlanet Directory Server in a
    high-volume environment? Anyone have experience with both NIS+ and LDAP
    to contrast the two especially on security? Having a "setup" script
    out-of-the-box would be nice to ease the path into using LDAP/iDS (seems
    it should be possible given LDIFs and other command-line tools).

    One of the other things I'd like to see is more documentation on "fresh"
    installs as opposed to migrating from NIS environments (plenty of info on
    the latter, not much on the former).

    Also, I look through release notes for iDS and see a lot of memory leaks
    and other seemingly major issues being fixed and am concerned that
    although LDAP may be the better directory in the long-term, the
    short-term pains may not be worth it to keep up on versions and fixes.
    Seems like NIS+ (which has its own respective fixes) may be just easier to
    deal with due to its tighter integration with Solaris.

    I am looking to run it in a Solaris only environment.

    Thanks for any assistance or tips anyone may have.

    Regards,
    -Mark Femal