From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 19:39:10 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 1BB48106564A for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7E48FC17 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:39:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.34.140] (helo=smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDOiC-0000FP-Bc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:39:08 +0100 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDOiB-00057B-Dq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:39:07 +0100 Received: from [192.168.13.173] (NLBEK31LJCLJZ1J.egypt.nl [192.168.13.173]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1983239887 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:38:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <494AA6D3.20006@boosten.org> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:38:59 +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> <494AA63A.8090600@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <494AA63A.8090600@boosten.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: 1LDOiB-00057B-Dq 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 19:39:10 -0000 Peter Boosten wrote: > Dan wrote: >> >> 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. > ... with Dans' comment. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org