Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:54:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: Lee Johnston <lee@wildcardinternet.co.uk> Cc: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Web Based Control for FreeBSD (LDAP/MySQL) Message-ID: <20021218111756.W42746-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <EBEOJMPKJEAGIGLPCFBBCEBJCAAA.lee@wildcardinternet.co.uk>
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Lee Johnston wrote: > I was really after something that stored account info, domain details, > apache config in MySQL but looking around, it seems that people are leaning > towards LDAP and using pam_ldap for user authentication. > > Has anyone got an opinion with regards to the stability and usability of > OpenLDAP vs. MySQL? I've never really experimented with LDAP! > Well, I think that both products are quite stable, so that should not be a deciding factor. Usability is where it matters. MySQL is an SQL RDBMS (Relation DataBase Management System). OpenLDAP is an LDAP Directory. SQL is better for transaction-based operations and where you require complex queries, while LDAP is designed for read-intensive operations where you are constantly querying the server for information and not writing to it as often. Also, from my experience, LDAP is easier to replicate. I think that LDAP makes more sense for storing user account information. Not too long ago there was a website, and I believe it was www.ldap.org, which had some good articles on the differences between SQL and LDAP. However, now when I go to ldap.org I get one of those stupid Ultimate Search pages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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