Re: RFC: Going the LDAP/Kerberos way with NetBSD.

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Bill Stouder-Studenmund skrev:


...
> > And, if someone wants to use more fancy features in an LDAP server, 
> > install OpenLDAP or iPlanet.
> > It should be trivial to just switch over.
> >
> > Now, after a much too long mail, comments please? :-)
> >     
>
> Ok, I think there really are two parts to your EMail, and we should factor 
> them out for discussion.
>
> 1) Integrating LDAP into NetBSD to the same level as YP was 15 to 20 years 
> ago. This includes scripts to seed an LDAP server from /etc databases and 
> also scripts to help bind a client to an LDAP system
>
> 2) Including your small ldap server to help with (1).
>
> I think we should talk about them separately since (2) will raise issues 
> not raised by (1).
>
> I STRONGLY favor (1)!!! Sounds great!!!
>   
Yep, exactly.  And it should be complete with all stuff needed to get it 
running
smoothly.

> I like (2) as well. I however don't know enough about LDAP to know how 
> much of a support concern we're opening ourselves up to.
>   
Neither do I, but keeping it small will avoid most of the problems, I hope.
Note that using OpenLDAP will be both difficult to have a reasonable default
install and also to keep it up-to-date. 

-- Ragge