From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 5 23:15: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (rnocserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4749C153D1 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.RNOC-dialup.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.127]) by rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA83329; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:12:28 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <37819E79.6E806AE5@urc.ac.ru> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:13:14 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Southern Ural Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" Cc: Amancio Hasty , mtaylor@cybernet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Wilcox Subject: SQLed FreeBSD [Was: Re: LDAPed FreeBSD] References: <199907051959.MAA27212@rah.star-gate.com> <378112E3.A1E8635@OpenLDAP.Org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote: > This discussion is diverging a bit from this list's charter. Hence, > I'll be brief. > > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > True LDAP (v2 or v3) does not provide record locking . Now the question is > > does Novell's NDS 8 -- a native LDAP v3 -- , Oracle's Directory > > Server or Microsoft Active Directory does if they do then how ? > > Commonly through other directory (or database) access mechanisms. Or, What about using SQL: system services as SQL clients? SQL's advantages are locking, transactions, views, relative portability and extensibility. One can use MySQL server as a directory, another - Oracle or Postgres etc. Of course, there are some disadvantages (please, point out some...) > > possibly, though some private or experimental LDAPv3 control or extended > op they added to their client/servers (LDAPv3 is an extensible protocol). > > > Again my emphasis is on configuring network services or other system services > > if appropiate and to provide a HTML interface which is sufficiently rich to be > > user friendly. > OK. Then PHP comes to mind (again with SQL :-) -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message