LDAP integration

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net> (from Mon, 8 Jan 2007  
18:52:47 -0600):

> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:02:30 -0800
> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Vulpes Velox wrote:
>> > I was just wondering. How many people here have given lots of
>> > though about integrating FreeBSD configuration with LDAP. I've
>> > just begun looking at it a lot more and was curious as to what
>> > other people think in this area.
>>
>> It would be more useful to have this discussion if you defined what
>> you meant by "FreeBSD configuration" in more detail. You might also
>> want to search the archives first, there is a lot of discussion
>> about various proposals in this area, all of which end up getting
>> shot down because they don't offer sufficient added value to
>> justify the pain of the change.
>
> I mean exactly that. Initially I have begun looking at rc.conf as a
> logical starting point.

It seems I did misunderstand you initially. I thought you where  
talking about integrating LDAP into the base to allow NSS/PAM stuff to  
be provided via LDAP.

> I am currently wondering if any one else working on this, before I
> start digging to much into it. The only LDAP stuff I am finding
> on this list has been recently in regards to integration of a ldap nss
> module into the base system.

Right, this is the only major discussion we had in the last months in  
the public lists. And as long as we (FreeBSD) don't have this, we  
don't even need to think about getting an rc.conf out of LDAP (we  
wouldn't be self-hosting anymore if we do this before we have LDAP  
stuff in the base).

Bye,
Alexander.

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