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Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru>
Subject: Re: [HEADS UP]: OpenLDAP+nss_ldap+nss_modules separated patch and
 more (SoC)
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John Baldwin wrote:

>On Saturday 26 August 2006 01:00, Robert Watson wrote:
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>Agreed.  I also think LDAP would be a very useful thing to add.  I know that
>I currently use NIS/yp because it just works and is integrated into the base,
>etc.  I think adding LDAP as the logical successor to NIS/yp would be a good
>thing.
>
>  
>
I agree with John. Historically things have moved to the base system 
when they
have reached some amount of public use, and they have been needed for a 
large number
of othre parts.. e.g. SSL.

I think that LDAP has reached this point (in fact did so many several 
years ago)
and having a standard ldap implementation in the base system allows us 
to make
FreeBSD machien splay better in many environments.

It can always be removed for 'small' systems but I think that having the 
ability to exist in
ldap envrinments by default is getting more and more important.