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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:26 +0100
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Centralized DB of "system" users
Message-ID:  <494AA63A.8090600@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081218193113.GA8652@ourbrains.org>
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Dan wrote:
> Matthew Seaman(m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +0000:
>> Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a
>> RDBMS system like MySQL.   And like MySQL, there are right times, places
>> and ways to use it, and wrong ones too.  Yes, there is a lot of complexity,
>> but that means there's a lot of flexibility too.
> 
>> 	Cheers,
>>
>> 	Matthew
> 
> I can't disagree more. LDAP is way simpler than any SQL database, even
> SQLite. That said because people are not familiar/don't grock the
> simplicity of LDAP, they decide to use SQL databases (partly because
> everyone else does). 

For the persistent ones: you can have openldap with a mysql backend :-)
I agree completely.

Peter
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