Groups Explanation

["John Humphrey" <txkjohn@hotmail.com>]

Could anyone in fifty words or less (actually take as many words as you 
need) explain the difference between a posixGroup, groupOfNames, and 
groupOfUniqueNames? I'm familiar with Novell's NDS and MS Active Directory's 
implementation of groups. That's what I want to emulate with OpenLDAP. In 
other words, I want to add objects the the OpenLDAP directory (whether it be 
servers, applications, printers, other users, etc..) and assign permissions 
to the groups rather than individual users. Do I have a misconception of 
what OpenLDAP can do? Is this possible to do in OpenLDAP? I want to scrap 
NDS/Active Directory and replace it with OpenLDAP as my metadirectory. Is 
this possible?

BTW - I'm using OpenLDAP 2.0.7 on a RH 7.0 server

John Humphrey
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