Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:50:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, capriotti0@hotmail.com, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, joe.shevland@horizonti.com Subject: Re: WebAdmin Message-ID: <199801302350.QAA12695@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199801301528.KAA29091@lakes.dignus.com> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Jan 30, 98 10:28:40 am
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> Well - just a heads' up on the LDAP issue. > > Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com) just published a lead article > indicating LDAP is soon to be dead... People are finding it to be too > ill defined producing too much incompatibility. > > Based solely on that article, since that's all I know - I'd suggest staying > away from LDAP until a presumed newer definition materializes. I'd say the death of LDAP is much exaggerated. I think CRN also had an article on how NT was going to kill UNIX, didn't it? ;-). I have an LDAP server here with all of the varios fixes, except for the cryptographic stuff, already integrated. I can send out a mega patch if you are serious about hacking on it for FreeBSD. One thing LDAP is currently missing is a transactioning mechanism. You can fake this *if*: 1) You are guaranteed your last request is committed before your next request. 2) You use a reference object. Ie: I have a user record for uid 117; it looks like / ... / uid-117 / ... Instead of this being: / ... / uid-117 / account=fred / ... / uid-117 / group / default=20 / ... / uid-117 / gid=thwkFIeaA5wpk / ... / uid-117 / gecos=Fred The Cat ... You make it: / ... / uid-117=0x800179df And then in: / ... / 0x800179df / account=fred / ... / 0x800179df / group / default=20 / ... / 0x800179df / gid=thwkFIeaA5wpk / ... / 0x800179df / gecos=Fred The Cat ... To modify this (for instance, name and gecos): / ... / 0x80017b47 / account=tom / ... / 0x80017b47 / group / default=20 / ... / 0x80017b47 / gid=thwkFIeaA5wpk / ... / 0x80017b47 / gecos=Tom Sawyer ... *Then* / ... / uid-117=0x80017b47 ...an "atomic" update of the value of uid-117, using a container object. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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