From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 02:23:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960B116A4DD for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3F743D46 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:23:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp141-127.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [59.167.141.127]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6B2N2mj080739 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:53:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:52:56 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> <20060710224854.GC47557@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060711020031.GB3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060711020031.GB3507@odin.ac.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2143537.VGERCELxvq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607111153.03860.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Michael Bushkov Subject: Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:23:07 -0000 --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--