Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 19:39:54 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and LDAP Directory Message-ID: <20020527023955871.AAA478@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.68392.20020526181330@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 07:03:23 +0100 > From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> > There's also the OS X Open Directory system, which is also in Darwin (the > opensource component of OS X). See > > http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/PortingUNIX/additiona= > lfeatures/NetInfo.html > > for a brief introduction, and the Open Directory pages at > > http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/ > > for links to API documentation, and source code. > > Basically, Open Directory is an API to abstract lookups to a number of > different directory services, including NetInfo, and LDAP. Yanno, it's kinda funny how everyone has all these proprietary "open" directory API's. Kinda like Microsoft and their "proprietary" kerberos, or how Sun says Java is "open to everyone", as long as they get to control it. <g> -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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