Hello,
this is yet another submission for a presentation at LDAPCon 2015.
Michael Ströder asked Univention, if we would like to contribute a talk about the use of OpenLDAP in our product. Since there are different facets to this, I'm submitting three different proposals. The program committee may decide which, if any, proposal(s) are most interesting and fitting for LDAPCon. For clarity I'll submit them as separate emails.
This is proposal Nr. 3: ================================================== Title:
Experinces of 10+ years of using OpenLDAP as core of Univention Corporate Server
Abtract:
This presentation will report some of the challenges and history of the use of OpenLDAP in the multi-server domain infrastructure provided by the Debian based enterprise Linux Distribution Univention Corporate Server (UCS). From 2003 till today UCS builds on OpenLDAP as a solid foundation of its identity and infrastructure management solution. Starting from ldbm and slurpd the speaker will highlight the most interesting challenges that have been solved on the way to bring this Opensource distribution into the age of multi-master mdb-backed directory services we have today.
Bio:
The speaker works as opensource developer for Univention (Bremen/Germany) in the fields of OpenLDAP and Samba/AD directory services and authentication since 2007. Univention is a company that offers a Debian based enterprise Linux distribution which provides identity and service management for customers in the the private and public sector and claims to be an alternative to Microsoft Active Directory server infrastructure. Before that he gathered experience in different old-school Unix flavours as a systems administrator at University as well as in other side jobs. As a theoretical physicist by education and PhD he obtained hands on experience with cross language library bindings (C++, Python and some science specific computer languages) and high perfomance distributed computing. ==================================================
Cheers, Arvid Requate