From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 27 07:20:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09733 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 07:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [207.95.42.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA09728 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 07:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dingo.its.enc.edu (dingo.its.enc.edu [207.95.222.250]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01836; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:17:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:26:23 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens X-Sender: owensc@dingo.its.enc.edu Reply-To: Charles Owens To: Julian Elischer cc: hackers list FreeBSD Subject: Re: [Fwd: LDAP object schema for NIS/UNIX/KERB ] Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > http://www.xedoc.com.au/~lukeh/ldap/schema.html > Julian, What's your interest in this area? I make heavy production use of FreeBSD NIS but am planning a move to LDAP. This is my next big project... I expect to spend a few months on it. One of the main goals is to provide generic directory services that Web applications can leverage, but I was planning on some sort of gateway to NIS to keep the user passwords in sync. From the URL above it seems that this NIS intergration is being seriously considered. I hope I can make use of their work. I read Bill Paul's reply about not having any time. If I make any progress that seems integratable into FreeBSD I will of course submit it to someone for consideration. Do you have any plans to work in this area? It would be nice to have some folks to bounce my stuff off of. Do you know what has been done by FreeBSD folks with LDAP in general? (other than the port of the umich package). Are there any official plans to make use of it in any real way? thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -------------------------------------------------------------------------