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The Raleigh NC-based Linux distributor brings out a LDAP-based server at a New Orleans summit.

The company also released Fedora Directory Server to the open source community. The Fedora Directory Server project is expected to mirror the existing Fedora Linux project, which replaced the consumer market distributions of Red Hat when the company launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, said: "Today we are announcing a massively scalable, secure, reliable, and open source directory server based on enterprise-proven technology.

"We are very pleased to offer customers this cost effective, high performance solution in a market where none previously existed."

The new product offers LDAP-based services that allow admins to centrally manage application settings, user access controls, and group data from an operating system-independent, network based registry.

Enterprises will find the product allows for a single point of authentication, for both internal and external applications.

The product will be available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4, Solaris 9 on 32-bit and 64-bit Sparc platforms, and HP-UX 11i on the PA-RISC architecture.

Red Hat advertises the Directory Server as providing a central repository for building an Identity Management structure. To that end, the product also works with the Red Hat Certificate System to provide strong certificate-based authentication of resources.

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