389 Directory Server

389 Directory Server (previously known as Fedora Directory Server) is an open source software designed as a LDAP server for Linux.

Installation

 yum install 389-ds

Usage

The directory server can be setup bu running the following command after installation:

setup-ds-admin.pl

Features:

• Multi-Master Replication
• Scalability
• Extensive documentation
• Active Directory group and user synchronization
• LDAPv3 support
• Zero downtime
• Graphical console
• Virtual Views
• Directory Server Gateway/Phonebook
• Directory Server Org Chart
• DSML Gateway
• Server Side Sorting
• Roles and Class of Service
• Resource-limits by bind DN
• Language handling
• High performance logging
• Data Interoperability Plugins
• Plug-in Interface
• Chaining and referrals
• Account Inactivation
• Password Policy and Account Lockout
• On line configuration and management
• Attribute encryption
• Task invocation via LDAP
• SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer
• SSL/TLS
• Powerful access control mechanism
• Microsoft Windows Synchronization
• Multiple databases

What is new in this release:

• Ticket #47605 CVE-2013-4485: DoS due to improper handling of ger attr searches
• Retro Changelog fixes
• Replication fix

What is new in version 1.3.1.5:

• Ticket 47378 - fix recent compiler warnings
• Ticket 47405 - CVE-2013-2219 ACLs inoperative in some search scenarios
• Ticket 47427 - Overflow in nsslapd-disk-monitoring-threshold
• Ticket 47440 - Fix compilation warnings and header files
• Ticket 47441 - Disk Monitoring not checking filesystem with logs
• Ticket 47447 - logconv.pl man page missing -m,-M,-B,-D
• Ticket 47448 - Segfault in 389-ds-base-1.3.1.4-1.fc19 when setting up FreeIPA replication
• Ticket 47449 - deadlock after adding and deleting entries
• Ticket 47455 - valgrind - value mem leaks, uninit mem usage
• Ticket 47456 - delete present values should append values to deleted values

What is new in version 1.2.11.11:

• CLEANALLRUV was improved.
• Windows Sync now supports POSIX attributes.

What is new in version 1.2.11.6:

• This version fixes a security problem with unhashed user passwords.

What is new in version 1.2.10.3:

• This version fixes a crash when using a password policy, and fixes some other valgrind issues.

What is new in version 1.2.10.2:

• Account Usability Control support
• database transaction pre/post plugins
• Changelog writes use main database transaction
• All plugins are transaction aware
• native systemd support (Fedora 16 and later)
• slapi_rwlock support replaces direct NSPR PR_RWLock support - solves some deadlock issues in certain cases
• improved entryrdn index
• Performance improvements
• Reduce DN normalization
• speed up searches that use large filters with large result sets
• Automember and Managed Entry improvements

What is new in version 1.2.10 Alpha 8:

• Account Usability Control support
• database transaction pre/post plugins
• Changelog writes use main database transaction
• All plugins are transaction aware
• native systemd support (Fedora 16 and later)
• slapi_rwlock support replaces direct NSPR PR_RWLock support - solves some deadlock issues in certain cases
• improved entryrdn index
• Performance improvements
• Reduce DN normalization
• speed up searches that use large filters with large result sets
• Automember and Managed Entry improvements

What is new in version 1.2.9.6:

• This release contains fixes for bugs found in 1.2.8.x and 1.2.9.x.

What is new in version 1.2.8.3:

• Bug 700145 - userpasswd not replicating
• Bug 700557 - Linked attrs callbacks access free'd pointers after close
• Bug 694336 - Group sync hangs Windows initial Sync
• Bug 700215 - ldclt core dumps
• Bug 695779 - windows sync can lose old values when a new value is added
• Bug 697027 - 12 - minor memory leaks found by Valgrind + TET