From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 18:25:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A268016A416 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from mail.twinthornes.com (mail.twinthornes.com [65.75.198.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0C113C474 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from [10.9.70.3] (c-24-20-142-99.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.20.142.99]) by mail.twinthornes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA998E15; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:57:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45A67A34.5080001@evilphi.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:56:04 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer References: <60737.24.71.119.183.1168496463.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> <45A5EA3B.9020000@datalinktech.com.au> <20070111035549.7c11a450@vixen42> <17830.29050.791321.480369@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <17830.29050.791321.480369@bhuda.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:39:13 +0000 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Vulpes Velox Subject: Re: LDAP integration X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:25:38 -0000 Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20070111035549.7c11a450@vixen42>, Vulpes Velox typed: >> LDAP is nice organizing across many systems, but if you are just >> dealing with one computer it is complete over kill for any thing. > > In that situation, it's not merely overkill, it's may actually be a > bad idea. Can you say "AIX SDR"? How about "Windows registry"? > > Those system both took the approach of putting all the configuration > information in a central database. This creates problems because the > tools needed to examine/fix the config database require a complex > environment - at least compared to a statically linked copy of > ed. LDAP may not be so bad, but it still makes me nervous. > > On the other hand, if you've got a flock of boxes to manage, having a > way to tell the rc subsystem "Go read config values from this LDAP > server" seems like a very attractive alternative. And to think, all these years I've been wasting my time and effort using NFS and rsync to centralize the configurations of server farms. -- Darren Pilgrim