Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:01:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LDAP Admin? Message-ID: <3DD18850.2050700@centtech.com> References: <3DD13BE2.8000902@centtech.com> <3DD14FE5.7DAC9339@mindspring.com> <3DD15ADF.7070600@centtech.com> <3DD18044.A928D4AD@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: >>>>What are you FreeBSD admins using to administer OpenLDAP directories? >>>>Command line tools? Scripts? GUI's? > In general, LDAP does not expect people to treat it like a > relational database. If you wanted a database, you would be using > a relational database. LDAP expects to be used like a WORM drive: > changed exceedingly rarely, but read frequently (like a telephone > book or any other directory service). Many LDAP-based services > perform manual imports of data once or twice a month, for their > entire operational lifetime. > What are you trying to do? Maybe you would be better off with > a relational database, instead of a hierarchical database? If > you plan on writing it often enough to need an administration > tool (you can read an LDAP database using "ldap://" URI's and > a Netscape browser), then you are probably using the wrong tool > for the job. I'm using it to replace NIS, and pull my MS network in with my UNIX network for authentication. I just need some simple stuff like pw changing tools, user adding/deleting tools, but was looking for what people use before I start to get it deployed. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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