Open Source Software

PADL has had a long history of involvement with the open source community. We wrote the LDAP nameservice libraries which are now part of every major Linux distribution, and have made substantial contributions to the security and directory service infrastructure of Darwin, the core of Mac OS X. This page contains links to the open source projects you can download from us. Our research and development page contains further information on some of PADL's open source software.

You can support PADL's continued investment in open source by purchasing a compendium CD-ROM or technical support.

Open source users are encouraged to use Bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. Please read our guidelines for contributing.

A list of vulnerabilites and exposures registered at MITRE CVE is here.

There are over 850,000 users authenticating using our open source software - please complete our survey if you have not already!

Testimonials

"Don't even think about the Solaris 8 native LDAP unless you are using iPlanet/Sun directory server.  We blew about 2 person weeks trying to make it work. Stick with PADL!"

- Jim Harle, United States Naval Academy

Please send any other testimonials to survey@padl.com.

Software

nss_ldap

The LDAP Nameservice Switch (NSS) module is an open source project to integrate LDAP as a native nameservice under AIX, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems.

pam_ldap

The LDAP Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) integrates LDAP authentication into operating systems supporting the PAM API, such as Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris.

nss_updatedb

The Nameservice Switch UpdateDB tool enables the local caching of network directory information.

pam_ccreds

The Cached Credentials Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) provides local authentication using enterprise identities when the network is unavailable.

pam_localpwcheck

pam_localpwcheck is a very simple strength checking module designed for local accounts only.

MigrationTools

The MigrationTools are a freely distributed set of Perl scripts for migrating UNIX and NIS nameservice information to LDAP directories.

ldapprofile

The ldapprofile tool provides a simple mechanism for configuring nss_ldap, pam_ldap and OpenLDAP clients from information stored in an LDAP directory.

CVSTools

The CVSTools provide a simple project versioning system built on top of CVS.

binddnsdomain

binddnsdomain is a tool for associating a DNS domain or other distinguished name suffix with a NetInfo domain. It requires the Apple LDAP/NetInfo bridge.

NetInfo for Linux

NetInfo for Linux is a port of an earlier version of Apple's NetInfo directory service to the Linux operating system.

Mailing Lists

PADL provide three mailing lists which users of our open source software can use to support each other. Users can subscribe to these mailing lists by sending a mail to majordomo@padl.com with "subscribe listname" in the body. The addresses below are for posting to the mailing lists; do not send subscription requests to these addresses. Posting is limited to subscribers.

• ldap-nis@padl.com - general discussion about software which supports RFC 2307
• nssldap@padl.com - discussion amongst users of nss_ldap. An archive is available at http://www.nabble.com/NSS-LDAP-f14177.html.
• pamldap@padl.com - discussion amongst users of pam_ldap. An archive is available at http://www.nabble.com/PAM-LDAP-f14178.html.

PADL do not guarantee a human response to open source support enquiries sent to us from customers without a support contract.