Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:50:58 +0200 From: Kay Abendroth <kay.abendroth@raxion.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gconf2 and openldap Message-ID: <45375892.4000803@raxion.net> In-Reply-To: <20061018224056.GC80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> References: <20061018214042.GB80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <20061018224056.GC80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Duane Whitty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:40:42PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: >> Not sure I understand why gconf would have a dependency on ldap. >> > After reading the gconftools-2 man page, am I understanding > correctly that gconf can use openldap for its schema storage, > thus providing a distributed configuration environment? To be honest I don't know how gconf works and how to configure it. But this what wikipedia.org says: "[...]the default backend is based on XML. At this time, this is the only working backend for GConf, although a LDAP backend existed in embryonic form [...]" > This in a way seems like something I read about for using ldap > as an inventory management system. > > So, noticing firefox uses gconf at runtime, this could mean then > that firefox could ask gconf to get configuration preferences > for the current user from anywhere on the network, using ldap, which would > be useful for diskless clients, for example? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iQEVAwUBRTdYkv6xkxz4DngiAQhRMwgAoHfvjQta//q9TXojLA3r6dJFwIkhUr6T DfUicwmYzPq0PhJNunNDGvs5q8QBViMPsBRhmwBkyr4jiOKCc2BWrczD2XYHWio7 ywjkAvq/0xzzqrqVvIntW81+sGElyyXzgEY9PQ6AlmXfAQPC0VceJhvU2QXlJ3m3 UALOdY0gL3/pyUpFFXkQXcnESTKZdjgIsSrECXYg1fksBJTF1Ge+GGxwiYqiAbXz O51xxbh6Anv/HyLlzxselMw2/+MFriBU+32ZTOVQCPs7eRh8o7HIlZVVhNEPkbQh 9kC9f1mC0xNrE2R2o42dk0xN6PI7XP0cAT+9ym0y4dOZ22RM4X7Z9g== =1Se0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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