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

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

Manuel Bouyer skrev:
> 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.
>   
True.  Even though I would probably fix the problem then, it's up to the 
user to choose
what he wants to use.

-- Ragge