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Yes, but honestly, in my world "a strange feeling" doesn't qualify for ojective proof that a system is bad. There are plenty of powerful tools, and if you don't like the commandline (although you say you use unix a lot, ldap commands are straight forward), you probably could've used GUIs in the most cases. My "feeling" of this thread is that people were unsatisfied with openldap and now blame a protocol. The major enterprise directories have a lot of additional commands/features/web interfaces to fiddle with. It's not the protocols problem when a specific implementation is hard to use, isn't it?