Subject: Re: Authenticating with LDAP
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/21/2003 16:46:37
[ On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 11:53:51 (-0800), John Nemeth wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Authenticating with LDAP
>
>      Only a nutcase would make a statement like this.  Most people that
> have been here for any length of time have learned to just ignore
> Greg.  He contends that since you have the source, you can just modify
> it and recompile the entire system (as well as any third party apps
> that need to do authentication).  This is obviously not realistic.
> Greg lives in some kind of fanatasy world that nobody can figure out.

It's entirely realistic to build and use modified Open Source systems.
People rebuild NetBSD from source every day -- even non-programmers can
do it.  Maybe you can't do it John, but lots of other people can.

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