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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:03:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
Subject:   Re: LDAP integration
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701111201580.2433@sploit.scriptkiddie.org>
In-Reply-To: <17830.29050.791321.480369@bhuda.mired.org>
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>

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20070111035549.7c11a450@vixen42>, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> 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"?

And then you take the windows registry from 1,000 machines and cram them 
into a centralized database and try to manage the resultant mess.  I don't 
think this is a good solution.



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