Anyone using LDAP?

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been asked to study the feasibility of using LDAP to replace a 
home-grown directory that encapsulates the corporate chain of command and 
responsibility. The original application has become so popular that it 
needs to be either heavily enhanced or replaced entirely. In the year or so 
since the app went on line, we've discovered that we need multiple 
corporate entities, cross-platform user validation, universal access to 
email address information, software access and database subset permissions, 
remote administration of branches of the directory, and on and on and on. 
Has anyone actually implemented something fairly substantial with LDAP? The 
platform doesn't seem to matter much. It appears there are a lot of 
potential pitfalls relating to the schema, and I'd really like to line up 
someone who can tell me how stupid my plans are if and when I actually 
start designing the thing.

tia
Pete
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/

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