From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 21:08:05 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 503A916A403 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9AB713C469 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57778 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jan 2007 21:07:40 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:07:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17830.42779.829357.835403@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:07:39 -0500 To: Lamont Granquist In-Reply-To: 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> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Mike Meyer 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 21:08:05 -0000 In , Lamont Granquist typed: > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, 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"? > 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. The difference is that when a single machine crashes, you can use a *different* machine to examine/fix the centralized database while you're working on that machine. If you just cram all the values into the central database, then you're no better off than you would be with flat files on every host. If, on the other hand, you organize the data in the database to reflect the organization of the systems, you can leverage things to cut down on the amount of work you have to do to propogate changes. Someone else mentioned rsync, and that works fairly well, though I prefer perforce. However, it's not quite as flexible - or as convenient - as a database. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.