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

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

matthew sporleder skrev:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Anders Magnusson 
> <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
>   
> >  Now, after a much too long mail, comments please? :-)
> >
> >     
>
>
> These are some pretty big changes.  It might be easier to implement as
> a minimal openldap backend (maybe just improving slapd-passwd) and
> then pushing for netbsd to include slapd with just that backend
> enabled.  This would allow you to ship a very simple slapd.conf which
> pointed at the local passwd, group, etc files and you have an instant
> replacement for NIS working on the same trusted infrastructure (text
> files).  You could even have slapd listen on ldapi:// (ldap over unix
> domain socket) for local-only queries.
>   

Yep, but it still a giant amount  of code.  I also felt it has become a 
little too
clever, I usually install iPlanet instead these days.  It is also a 
large package,
but at least the admin gui is simple :-)

-- Ragge