From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 19:36:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DA91065674 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C5C8FC1C for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.42.140] (helo=smtp9.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDOfl-0008Uu-Fo for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:37 +0100 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp9.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDOfh-0005NC-DX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:33 +0100 Received: from [192.168.13.173] (NLBEK31LJCLJZ1J.egypt.nl [192.168.13.173]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA07639887 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <494AA63A.8090600@boosten.org> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:26 +0100 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081212120557.V3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <9bbcef730812120426t3c4b8a28q337c8379cd947702@mail.gmail.com> <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <139b44430812120527w7b22d8a1m860cbf308e4b67c3@mail.gmail.com> <64b284310812120645m6c5ee122mb0510014343eff3f@mail.gmail.com> <49442D1B.4000608@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081213225041.P44804@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49443793.9030404@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081218193113.GA8652@ourbrains.org> In-Reply-To: <20081218193113.GA8652@ourbrains.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1LDOfh-0005NC-DX X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.413, required 5, BAYES_00 -2.60, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, SPF_NEUTRAL 0.69) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Centralized DB of "system" users X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:39 -0000 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