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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:32:32 +0930
From:      Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To:        BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NDS for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010918123231.C14353@plug.cx>
In-Reply-To: <42d42b429602.42960242d42b@mbox.com.au>; from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:32PM %2B1100
References:  <42d42b429602.42960242d42b@mbox.com.au>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:32PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote:

> We need to move to NDS to consolidate all our Windows / Unix / Novell 
> user accounts. However some of our main file servers run FreeBSD and I 
> would hate to have to migrate to Linux just for NDS suppport. Nothing's 
> as fast and clean as FreeBSD and I would really like to be able to run 
> NDS on the FreeBSD boxes. Anyone done/know how to do this? I could not 
> find a port in the prts collection....

We've written a PAM module that does this. We're currently working on a
FreeBSD port, something I hope to have finished rather soon.

From what I've heard of eDirectory for Linux (or whatever the evil sods
at Novell call it), it's incredibly slow and has a tendancy to do rotten
things to your machine and NDS tree.

   - andrew

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