MDS (Mandriva Directory Server), along with the Mandriva Management Console (MMC), is a powerful system that allows developers, system administrators, and other software vendors to manage users, groups, and their associated policies in both OpenLDAP server and Fedora Directory Server which allows multi-master replication. Its highly ergonomic interface design makes it very easy to use, and delegation of administration enables medium size organization to adopt MDS. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The MMC infrastructure has been updated and is now the main framework of another Mandriva product called "Pulse 2". Pulse 2 is intended to provide application and update deployment mechanisms for large to very large organizations. MDS now features account provisioning from multiple sources (including LDAP and databases). For example, an external LDAP or a GLPI account database can both be used to authenticate and create new users in the MDS. Samba shares and Samba service management have been improved.

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