<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Brian Wall <<a href="mailto:kc0iog@gmail.com" class="">kc0iog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryan.coleman@cwis.biz" class="">ryan.coleman@cwis.biz</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Another possibility would be having an LDAP front end that read the MySQL database. I have not had any luck with that in the past.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">If that's the case, what value does the SQL database give you? Why<br class="">not just use a directory based product?<br class=""><a href="http://opensource.com/business/14/5/top-4-open-source-ldap-implementations" class="">http://opensource.com/business/14/5/top-4-open-source-ldap-implementations</a><br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I had so many issues when I ran OpenLDAP that I had to dump the whole thing and re-build my authentication scripts to run off the MySQL server. This way I can have my scripts maintain the SQL data and when I need an LDAP interface I can do it off that data.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Not mentioned, you could also set up Samba 4 as an Active Directory<br class="">server. FreeRADIUS should be able to authenticate against any LDAP<br class="">source.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This is something I hadn’t thought of… still a PITA but the tools of management are far more robust. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks!</div></div></body></html>