Finally got working on my file server, and it turns out that this isn't true, at least any more. While it doesn't look like it, there is an LDAP server built into OpenFiler. In order to enable it, you have to click on the "Use Local LDAP Server" checkbox, and then the bindDN and bindPassword fields set those options for the server in addition to the client. And then you can use the web interface to create groups and users.
Ah. Nice to see that they've finally integrated a local user management system. The old versions I used didn't have that option and you'd have to go in to the shell to do user management.
I was having some problems early on, but it seems to be going pretty smoothly now. I'll be testing speed tonight and then testing it again running under VMware and under Xen.
It was easy to setup and worked fine. Upgrading to the next version is/was a little hairy due to Conary and the developers not supporting an upgrade path.
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