Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:30:43 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP integration Message-ID: <200701111630.43734.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <45A67A34.5080001@evilphi.com> References: <60737.24.71.119.183.1168496463.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> <17830.29050.791321.480369@bhuda.mired.org> <45A67A34.5080001@evilphi.com>
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On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:56 am, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > 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"? > > > > 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. I think (Mike will have to confirm/deny) what Mike was trying to say was that for a single system, a centralised database for configuration options was overkill and a problem. Using the Windows Registry as an example. But, using a centralised database for configuring dozens of systems (similar or otherwise) could be a good idea, and that LDAP may be good in that situation (a lot of reading going on at boot to create the configs). -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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