LDAP integration

[Mike Meyer]

In <20070111035549.7c11a450 at vixen42>, Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net> typed:
> LDAP is nice organizing across many systems, but if you are just
> dealing with one computer it is complete over kill for any thing.

In that situation, it's not merely overkill, it's may actually be a
bad idea. Can you say "AIX SDR"? How about "Windows registry"?

Those system both took the approach of putting all the configuration
information in a central database. This creates problems because the
tools needed to examine/fix the config database require a complex
environment - at least compared to a statically linked copy of
ed. LDAP may not be so bad, but it still makes me nervous.

On the other hand, if you've got a flock of boxes to manage, having a
way to tell the rc subsystem "Go read config values from this LDAP
server" seems like a very attractive alternative.

	<mike
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