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

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

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:16:55PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>   
> > - NetBSD should have an infrastructure primary based on LDAP for 
> > directory services and Kerberos
> >  for authentication, which is used in all environments as feasible.  
> > Let the {s}pwd.db stuff die and
> >     
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>
> This will make using NetBSD on many embedded products infeasible.
>   
Eh, how would that ever affect embedded products?  It would just be 
another database to search in.

...and, I suppose that plain file searches would be even faster than 
using the ?pwd.db databases
for such products; generally it's just too few entries to justify a 
database.  But that's another discussion.

-- Ragge