Mandriva Directory Server

Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) is an easy-to-use LDAP directory management solution.

It allows companies to manage employees and their access, customers, and partners.

Mandriva Directory Server is the basis of the identity management system, directory service administration, and network services management.

An open system

MDS is interoperable with Windows, Linux and Mac machines. It can replace a Windows domain controller and can be integrated with existing systems, such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP.

Safe and systematic

With its systematic approach, MDS increases security dynamically.

The flexibility of rights management provides significant security granularity and lets you delegate administration tasks.

The integration of Kerberos also makes this a powerful and easy-to-use authentication solution.

Easy to integrate

To integrate easily in your information system, MDS has a rich and documented API. This lets you populate a directory from an external data source or link it to an existing system.

Simple to use

With MDS, you can manage identities, network resources, your computer system, and rights via a complete web interface.

MDS can handle tens of thousands of inputs.

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Take it further; make your life easier

When workstations are deployed with Pulse, the user work environments can be developed based on information contained in MDS.

In particular, user profile creation is automated.

This process improves the stability and security of environments, and relieves your IT teams of some tedious tasks. You will be able to automate some of your processes.

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An alternative for heterogeneous environments

MDS acts as a principal domain controller (PDC) and can replace Active Directory or Windows NT4 in this respect in heterogeneous environments (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS).

It also handles DNS and DHCP network services.

In addition, if you already have Squid-based proxy services, a message system using Postfix, or a Samba server, you can benefit from how easy MDS is to use.

Finally, with the integration of industry standards, MDS is a favourite authentication platform for infrastructure services based on an LDAP directory: it incorporates Kerberos and can be used as the basis for an SSO system.

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