Claromentis extends LDAP support beyond Active Directory
I am pleased to say that as part of Claromentis 6.1 ( currently in Beta ) we have significantly improved our intranet support for LDAP beyond the established support for Microsoft Active Directory that we have had for many years.
The difference between LDAP servers is in the way how they store users accounts and groups information – different servers use different attributes (properties) to indicate record type “user”, “group”, account state etc., a different property name that stores username and some other things. Plus Windows uses “domains” which are not really a part of LDAP.
Previously we had all these properties hard-coded so they match the ones used in Microsoft Active Directory. Now they can be defined in our config file. Currently our support documentation contains configuration options valid for AD and for Novell (as these are two servers that we have production tested in Claromentis 6.1), but it is architected to correctly communicate with other LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP or Samba LDAP server.
This fits very well with one of our core values of choice and cross platform support, and is a very positive development for those companies that require an intranet single sign on but do not use active directory!