From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 12 15: 1:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB8837B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:01:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56BA43E7B for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gACN1bc24654; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:01:37 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gACN1bL11700; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:01:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gACN1XX11693; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:01:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DD18850.2050700@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:01:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP Admin? References: <3DD13BE2.8000902@centtech.com> <3DD14FE5.7DAC9339@mindspring.com> <3DD15ADF.7070600@centtech.com> <3DD18044.A928D4AD@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: >>>>What are you FreeBSD admins using to administer OpenLDAP directories? >>>>Command line tools? Scripts? GUI's? > In general, LDAP does not expect people to treat it like a > relational database. If you wanted a database, you would be using > a relational database. LDAP expects to be used like a WORM drive: > changed exceedingly rarely, but read frequently (like a telephone > book or any other directory service). Many LDAP-based services > perform manual imports of data once or twice a month, for their > entire operational lifetime. > What are you trying to do? Maybe you would be better off with > a relational database, instead of a hierarchical database? If > you plan on writing it often enough to need an administration > tool (you can read an LDAP database using "ldap://" URI's and > a Netscape browser), then you are probably using the wrong tool > for the job. I'm using it to replace NIS, and pull my MS network in with my UNIX network for authentication. I just need some simple stuff like pw changing tools, user adding/deleting tools, but was looking for what people use before I start to get it deployed. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message