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

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:27:05AM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 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.

It's still less reliable than local files. Your replicated server may die.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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