Craig White wrote:
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FDS isn't installed by default because there is simply no justification
for doing so. All of the applications/daemons that have ldap client
libraries compiled in as options
Are you saying these don't follow standards and thus interoperate correctly?
So instead of installing OpenLDAP-Server you can install FDS and the
choice is really up to the system administrator but neither is suitable
as a default install.
I agree that they aren't suitable, but don't understand why this wasn't
fixed years ago. How is someone with a few machines supposed to make
their accounts work everywhere?
The point I was trying to make about needing to be versant with command
line functionality of LDAP was this...if you can't query/maintain LDAP
from the command line, you are never going to be able to debug/analyze
how other applications interact with your LDAP server since LDAP doesn't
operate in a vacuum.
Why is this any more true for LDAP than any other protocol? Do you
need to understand imap command line tools and protocol analyzers to use
email?
LDAP is only useful when you link in other
applications and if you don't understand how they do that, you are going
to get nowhere.
Again, why is LDAP any different in this respect that the other methods
doing the same jobs now - that most people use without understanding?
PAM should be covering up most of it anyway.
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Les Mikesell
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