Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:52:56 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru> Subject: Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing Message-ID: <200607111153.03860.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060711020031.GB3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> <20060710224854.GC47557@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060711020031.GB3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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--nextPart2143537.VGERCELxvq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:30, Brooks Davis wrote: > My life would be a heck of a lot simpler if LDAP support were included > in the base. At the moment I'm using NIS in several situations where > it just doesn't cut it any more. IMO we need (as a minimum) a modern > network directory service client in the base. While a majority of > FreeBSD users may not need LDAP in the base, I would suspect that a > majority of machines would benefit from it. A much greater portion of > machines would probably benefit from and LDAP client then benefit from a > number of the servers in the base system such as BIND (not a criticism > of having BIND in the base). I don't see why building it from ports is difficult.. That's what I do. Your argument applies to a few hundred other ports :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2143537.VGERCELxvq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEswuH5ZPcIHs/zowRAsy7AJ9MI3gjM01gwikW/qDlCHt7gIYqCQCfRIH9 tnvMgtikEgfiL9NV45Srkm4= =Zs3u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2143537.VGERCELxvq--
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