Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:11:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: info@pagecreators.com (Rod Ebrahimi) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database Message-ID: <199707242111.OAA18139@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707230112.SAA17951@netroplex.com> from "Rod Ebrahimi" at Jul 22, 97 06:10:53 pm
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> While on the subject of NT and FreeBSD, I wanted to address another issue. > For management and ease we are looking into developing a database system > that will be web based (privately) and enable employees to > add/delete/modify users from the comfort of there own browser, which also > in turn placed them on the billing list and sent invoices and/or charged > Credit Cards on the fly. I would appreciate any information on this > matter... Are there any well known Database designers that I should look > for? Get on Yahoo and lookg for "LDAP", "POSIX" and "draft". There is a draft MIB for POSIX account information for use in LDAP. There is also a LINUX implementation of a pluggable LDAP module using this MIB (the pluggable secruity module interface has an RFC out there fore it already; the IMAP4v1 RFC references it. The draft standard discusses all of the POSIX environment values necessary to run a UNIX credential server out of an LDAP database for non-boot-critical accounts. There is also a discussion (you may have to got to AltaVista for it, be forewarned) on one of the LDAP pages about running both NIS and Sendmail maildrop information out of an LDAP directory using the POSIX MIB. Finally, there is an NT implementation of a GIMP (the security interface for credential verification) for use by NT that uses NIS. It is available for download from the SAMBA site. This would let you keep a user database in LDAP, export it via NIS, and use the LDAP data to authenticate UNIX, NT, and Windows 95 (presuming the 95 clients were NT workgroup members) from a centrally administered database. Note that the U of Michigan LDAP code requires tweaking to operate ...it wants NDBM, which FreeBSD pretends (badly) to have. When built, the U of Michigan code fails to properly interoperate with the "LDAP browser" available for Win32 (95 and NT) from a German company (30 day eval). I was also unable to make the U of Michigan code add groups correctly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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