Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:26 +0100 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized DB of "system" users Message-ID: <494AA63A.8090600@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20081218193113.GA8652@ourbrains.org> References: <ghtdp3$g0r$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081212120557.V3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <9bbcef730812120426t3c4b8a28q337c8379cd947702@mail.gmail.com> <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <139b44430812120527w7b22d8a1m860cbf308e4b67c3@mail.gmail.com> <ghtq19$o1f$1@ger.gmane.org> <64b284310812120645m6c5ee122mb0510014343eff3f@mail.gmail.com> <49442D1B.4000608@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081213225041.P44804@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49443793.9030404@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081218193113.GA8652@ourbrains.org>
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Dan wrote: > Matthew Seaman(m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +0000: >> Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a >> RDBMS system like MySQL. And like MySQL, there are right times, places >> and ways to use it, and wrong ones too. Yes, there is a lot of complexity, >> but that means there's a lot of flexibility too. > >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew > > I can't disagree more. LDAP is way simpler than any SQL database, even > SQLite. That said because people are not familiar/don't grock the > simplicity of LDAP, they decide to use SQL databases (partly because > everyone else does). For the persistent ones: you can have openldap with a mysql backend :-) I agree completely. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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