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eDirectory is a hierarchical, object oriented database that represents all the assets in an organisation in a logical tree. Assets can include people, positions, servers, workstations, applications, printers, services, groups, etc. The use of dynamic rights inheritance and equivalence allows both global and fine grained access controls to be implemented efficiently. Access rights between objects in the tree are determined at the time of the request and is determined by the rights assigned to the objects by virtue of their location in the tree, any security equivalences and individual assignments. eDirectory supports partitioning at any point in the tree and replication of that partition to any number of servers. Replication between each server occurs periodically using deltas of the objects to reduce LAN/WAN traffic. Each server can act as a master of the information it holds (providing the replica is not read only). Additionally, replicas may be filtered to only include defined attributes to increase speed (eg a replica may be configured to only include a users name and phone number for use in a corporate address book). Referential integrity, multi-master replication and the modular authentication architecture are other major advantages. eDirectory can be accessed via LDAP , XML , DSML , SOAP , ODBC , JDBC , JNDI , EJB , Active X and ADSI and has been proven to scale to over 1 billion objects. eDirectory runs on Windows NT , Windows 2000 , Windows Server 2003 , Sun Microsystems 's Solaris , Linux , IBM 's AIX and HP 's HP-UX as well as under Novell 's own NetWare so it can easily be deployed in a heterogeneous network environment. As of late 2005, eDirectory was still powering CNN 's website. Look at the bottom of their website. [http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/2000/november/02/a0011023.htm#1041423 Personalizing and Customizing Web Content Using NDS eDirectory at CNN Direction Générale des Impôts, the French Tax Authority, uses Novell eDirectory as the identity repository for taxpayers . Today the directory hosts several hundred thousand identities and will grow to accommodate 35 million (encompassing virtually all French taxpayers) when the project is complete. TransUnion, one of the world’s largest credit reporting agencies, has deployed eDirectory to personalize the Web experience for 10 to 12 million customers annually . EXTERNAL LINKS
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