[Tfug] Ideas for handling group based allow/deny permissions?

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

> May I point out a (im)perfect example?  Win2000 Networking permissions &
> NTFS Permissions.

I much prefer NetWare's NDS, now called eDirectory and available on Linux.  
However, I don't know if eDirectory on Linux is "quite there" in terms of the 
security granularity of eDir on native NetWare partitions.  It's probably worth 
a little research, as it's quite inexpensive, $2/user plus $15-$35 for media:
http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/pricing.html

There's an eDir-on-Linux forum at novell.com which google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" 
opened for me when I googled "edirectory linux":

http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.support.edirectory.linux/readerNoFrame.tpt/@thread@26@F@10@D-,D@NONE+2/@article@2

http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/
http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/evaluation.html

This article gives decent setup instructions http://linux-
sxs.org/networking/edir87_linux.html 

Novell has online docs here 
http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/index.html

One huge downside: it's only certified on RH, RHES, and SUSE Enterprise Server.

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