OpenLDAP
The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, open source LDAP software suite. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop OpenLDAP Software and its related documentation. OpenLDAP Software provides a complete LDAP implementation including server, clients, C SDK, and associated tools.
| Tags | Database Software Development Libraries Clustering/Distributed Networks Networking Internet |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 27 Apr 2009 10:24
Changes: This release fixes a few bugs in GnuTLS certificate support and syncrepl with multimaster. Minor documentation enhancements were made.
- 24 Feb 2009 22:14
Changes: This release fixes a couple regressions, cleans up the refactored TLS support, and fixes other minor issues.
- 14 Feb 2009 11:31
Changes: Many minor bugfixes, some minor enhancements, and many documentation updates. Support for GnuTLS was improved, bugs in connection close handling were fixed, some replication bugs were fixed, and some new features were added.
- 25 Nov 2008 04:59
Changes: Many fixes and enhancements to the libraries, server, modules, and documentation.
- 13 Oct 2008 21:11
Changes: Various fixes to the code and documentation, plus a few new features such as support for BerkeleyDB 4.7, native support for MySQL NDB, etc.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Buggy and Bloated
> No release since June 2005?
Please check your facts; there have been several releases of OpenLDAP since then. There was one last week. The Freshmeat entry is simply out of date.
> affects you, you'd like to report it and get it fixed.
If it affects you and not lots of other people, maybe it isn't broken.
> And if so many people have problems with
> the standard deployment (BerkleyDB back
> end) why is there no BerkleyDB FAQ/known
> issues?
But there is, start here - http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1166.html
At least 9 out of 10 OpenLDAP related questions I see are answered right there on the website.
Re: Buggy and Bloated
>
> % It seems the only close-to-production
> % free LDAP server has gone the way of
> % Sendmail. Oh well.
>
>
> I completely disagree. I use OpenLDAP
> in production at several sites and find
> it lean and rock-solid. I've never had
> slapd dump.
No release since June 2005? 86,000 hits on google for 'openldap corruption' and many people don't seem to be able to find answers? I'm reminded of Apache FOP which went for over two years with not even a bug fix release. it doesn't matter how few bugs there are - if it affects you, you'd like to report it and get it fixed. Otherwise, you have to use something else.
And if so many people have problems with the standard deployment (BerkleyDB back end) why is there no BerkleyDB FAQ/known issues?
Re: Buggy and Bloated
> It seems the only close-to-production
> free LDAP server has gone the way of
> Sendmail. Oh well.
I disagree aswell. What are you basing that on?
Re: Buggy and Bloated
> It would benefit to learn about better
> software design.
>
> See djbdns, or SQLite for instance.
> OpenLDAP just doesn't fit either KISS or
> good design.
>
> Also see tinyldap.
>
If you're actually a competent enough programmer to be rendering judgements about good software design, why don't you contribute patches to the project? That *is* how open source improves, after all.
Re: Buggy and Bloated
I think you are a tad to harsh...