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Subject: Re: LDAP integration
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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.