From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 26 10:32:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BDA37B404 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g4Q63Ox27442; Sun, 26 May 2002 07:03:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 07:03:23 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Mike Gratton Cc: Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and LDAP Directory Message-ID: <20020526070323.B11002@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20020521222314.3C47D37B40C@hub.freebsd.org> <20020521153245.K10179@techometer.net> <20020521223735.AA60537B409@hub.freebsd.org> <3CEAD1BE.6020306@vee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CEAD1BE.6020306@vee.net>; from mike@vee.net on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:31:18AM +0930 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:31:18AM +0930, Mike Gratton wrote: > The long answer is: You need something like nsswitch to be able to use=20 > LDAP directly. There was a port of NetBSD's nsswitch implementation to=20 > -STABLE and -CURRENT a while ago by Jacques Vidrine. Unfortunately it=20 > didn't work with LDAP for a few reasons, and he doesn't have the time to= =20 > rework it so it does. See =20 > for details. An alternative would be to use YP on your FBSD machines=20 > with a LDAP to YP bridge for the master. PADL =20 > have a commerical LDAP/YP bridge which you could use. There's also the OS X Open Directory system, which is also in Darwin (the opensource component of OS X). See http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/PortingUNIX/additiona= lfeatures/NetInfo.html for a brief introduction, and the Open Directory pages at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/ for links to API documentation, and source code. Basically, Open Directory is an API to abstract lookups to a number of different directory services, including NetInfo, and LDAP. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE88Hqqk6gHZCw343URAppvAJ4gRKXI43TNu98snhv8k8dV75MAUACcCjzl E+Dmdc5BaMs/RdacDlJ6JGA= =/VKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message