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

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

Manuel Bouyer skrev:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:48:42PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>   
> > [...]
> > -  {s}pwd.db.  Should not be needed at all anymore.  Actually, I think 
> > that using
> >   just the files when <50 entries in the passwd file would be faster 
> > than doing a
> >   db lookup.   Haven't tested though, but would be quick to do.
> >   The point here is that if there are more than 50 users on the system 
> > you probably
> >   want a directory server on your machine.
> >     
>
> No, not on a system where reliability is the primary constaint.
>   
If there may be network disconnections between the servers I would 
rather run
a replicated ldap server on the affected machines.

-- Ragge