From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 14:17:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12887 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sequoia.lituus.fr (dij8-159.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.252.183.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12879 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@smtp.wanadoo.fr) Received: (from root@localhost) by sequoia.lituus.fr (8.9.1/8.8.8) id XAA00420; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199808122101.XAA00420@sequoia.lituus.fr> From: Stephane Legrand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter van Heusden Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Moving ahead with LDAP In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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