From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 11:18:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11830 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11808 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Received: from uucp by picasso.wcape.school.za with local-rmail (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0z6fSm-0002FF-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:17:32 +0200 Received: from localhost (pvh@localhost) by leftside.wcape.school.za (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA00507 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:08:53 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:08:52 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden Reply-To: Peter van Heusden To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Moving ahead with LDAP Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After a frustrating meeting with a local PHB, I've decided to try and put some more structured involvement into making FreeBSD easily manageable via a browser-like UI (as discussed on freebsd-hackers 2 months ago under the subject 'Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD'). As discussed then, LDAP might be a good tool to store configuration info in. The existing port of the UMich LDAP server, is, however sadly inadaquate. I have applied all patches I know of (Terry Lambert's collection from Critical Angle and elsewhere, as well as the patches forthcoming from freebsd-hackers), and created an updated port including the patches (and notified past (and possible future) port maintainers) but that still leaves UMich LDAP at LDAP v.2. Thus, I am interested in knowing who might want to work on moving ahead with better LDAP support on FreeBSD, with the intention of putting together and implementing a plan to get working LDAP v.3. So, who is interested? Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Its the 90's, and collective action is STILL cool! pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Get active in your union today! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message