Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Stephane Legrand <stephane@lituus.fr> To: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Moving ahead with LDAP Message-ID: <199808122101.XAA00420@sequoia.lituus.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980812200124.502A-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980812200124.502A-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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Peter van Heusden writes: > 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? > Just my 2 eurocents but does a software like "cfengine" (/usr/ports/sysutils/cfengine) could be more adapted than something like LDAP ? I quote the "cfengine" doc : "Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionnally attached to a TCP/IP network". Stephane Legrand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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