Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:21:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: hackers list FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980409225542.13598D-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980409225119.13598C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> LDAP runs under FreeBSD, but even with all the patches, it's not
> *quite* the same as the NetScape, which runs a full v3 LDAP. The
> UMICH LDAP + Critical Angle patches + Terry patches is nearly a
> full v3 LDAP. But there is little subschema support, and the
> NULL basedn support/namingcontexts attributes are not happy.
BTW.. thanks again for getting the LDAP patches out. I've been banging
away on it heavily for over a month now and it's working quite well! I've
now got a sort of "live" beta of it running, doing not much more than
handling authentication for some web servers, but doing it well.
> I *do* have a method of getting the basedn using "cn=config" with
> a stock server now, so that's not tottaly necessary any more.
Cool!
> Oh yeah; I also have the following schema's:
>
> RFC2307 (use and LDAP server ti store NIS information)
> Netscape (same as the Netscape LDAP server schema)
>
> And a couple others I won't discuss yet. 8-).
>
> So it wouldn't be that hard. But that'd be a heck of a kick in
> the face as a reward for releaseing free software: "release one
> of your tools under a free license, and that will trigger us to
> duplicate all the rest of them". Be a bit of a bad thing for
> anyone in the future considering doing the same thing.
>
> I'll probably put the basedn autodetection code into the Mozilla
> port, when it firms up a bit, and make the "search root" part of
> the directory dialog optional (default = autodetect radio button,
> or something like that).
>
> Oh yeah. I have part of a getpwent/gethostent/getprotoent/...
> set of libc function replacements done (the Linux ones suck, and
> they don't compile anyway, and they're LGPL'ed) so that you can
> boot a FreeBSD box using an RFC2307 LDAP server instead almost
> all of the files normally found in /etc/passwd (the ones that
> NIS+ can serve, anyway).
>
> 8-) 8-).
Pardon my drooling, but will these libc patches be available any time
soon?
Moving past the beta that I have running now my plan is to do a broader
implementation that handles NIS services (as you describe above) and
eventually supporting other types of config info. I'd planned on using
the RFC2307 approach... but hey! I see you've beat me to the punch!
(Don't mind a bit - my result would surely have been a hack). I think
I'll still do some hacking on getting a ypserv to LDAP gateway running to
support my non-FreeBSD NIS-speaking boxen.
Thanks,
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