Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:38:47 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: joe.shevland@horizonti.com (Joe Shevland), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, capriotti@geocities.com, capriotti0@hotmail.com Subject: Re: WebAdmin Message-ID: <199801300208.MAA00735@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:56:56 -0000." <199801300156.SAA10679@usr01.primenet.com>
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I've been waiting for people to actually move this discussion to the -config mailing list, which is where it belongs. I've also avoided weighing in because I haven't heard anything new yet. > This would all be a lot easier if all FreeBSD configuration information > went to one place, and was accessed via one set of methods. Perhaps > the LDAP methods, which are freely downloadable from the NetScape > developer resources page at www.netscape.com? I'm not sure if I like these yet. > The massive number of FreeBSD databases need not change for this to > work. FreeBSD could keep its fear of change and its proliferation > of hundreds of incompatible text file and database formats, if it > wanted to. You can write any LDAP back end you want to, including > one that would allow you register multiple databases to manage > various parts of the LDAP tree. Yes. Funnily enough, I have been looking at making the 'juliet' tool work as a backend for the umich SLAPD LDAP daemon. The real gotcha with this is security; SLAPD's security is relatively poor. Oh, and getting people to accept DNs, which aren't the nicest things to read or write. > Finally, for boot and local usage, you would probably want to implement > a native access to the LDAP methods. This would let you directly > access the database data, instead of requiring that you get your net > up before you can set up your net (catch 22). It wouldn't be hard to use a unix-domain socket for this. Start the LDAP server early enough and you're in business. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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