Re: RFC: Going the LDAP/Kerberos way with NetBSD.

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 29 Apr 2008, at 18:39, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > Let the {s}pwd.db stuff die ...
> >
> > I don't think that is a good idea, see below.
> Note that {s}pwd.db has nothing to do with yp.

I know. I just think that using files rather than any kind of  
directory server is something
which should still be possible.

> For ypserv, there are two things:
> - Move the old ypserv goo to pkgsrc.

That is probably a reasonable approach.

> - Provide yp compat for ldap.  Simple and clean, and especially good  
> in a migrating environment.

You mean something like the YP server frontend to an LDAP database in  
Solaris?
That's a good idea.

> Of course, that's one of my points (even though it may not have been  
> so clear).
> If the ldap server is not started things will just read the old  
> files as always.

I'm not sure whether I like that. Such clever hacks tend to backfire  
badly.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/