Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:26:57 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LDAP integration Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701101316300.5305@sploit.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <20070109184346.135e0bf4@vixen42> References: <20070107190616.73dee7b0@vixen42> <45A1DE76.7000201@FreeBSD.org> <20070108185247.2b6e1f69@vixen42> <45A407D1.9030101@FreeBSD.org> <20070109184346.135e0bf4@vixen42>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Vulpes Velox wrote: > The why is because I like centralized management and it would be > really handy for that. For my use, it would be handy in regards to my > laptops. > > I feel better central management is extreme significant. If I had > nothing more to say than "this would be neat!" we would not still be > talking. Right now I am just poking around for other people > > I regards to searching the archives, I am not seeing any thing in > regards to LDAP outside of NSS recently. I am also not finding any > thing in regards to dynamically and automatically building various > config files. Why are you doing this in the FreeBSD rc scripts directly? Why not install cfengine and work on making cfengine play better with database-driven config? And if you're looking specifically at the /etc/rc.conf config file, what would be more useful would be an /etc/rc.conf.d/ directory. That gets away from the need to tweak and edit the /etc/rc.conf config file with multiple inputs tweaking a single file. Instead you can drop whole orthogonal fragments into /etc/rc.conf.d/inetd to manage the inetd config which would make it more friendly to radmind-like approaches. It also makes it easier to use with cfengine since orthogonal cfengine modules aren't doing editfiles touches to the same files. The /etc/cron.d directory that (most?) linux distros have is similarly very useful to drop in files that contain completely orthogonal config (and may be written by entirely different config management tools -- e.g. system config management vs. application deployment/management), and the /etc/periodic functionality is not flexible enough to cover all cases.
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