On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >>> I suppose if Fedora saw itself as providing a turnkey distribution with > >>> a notion towards a specific, pre-determined configuration that simply > >>> worked out of the box, that would occur. > >> So no one expects anyone to have more than one fedora box and need them > >> to share network authentication? > >> > >>> i.e., isn't that what your > >>> 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does? > >> I thought the point of using any packaged distribution was that its own > >> components would work together. E-smith (now SME server) just does a > >> kickstart install and provides a web interface that does all your > >> config-file editing for you with a few concepts combined - mostly geared > >> towards being server for windows boxes. It does provide an ldap setup > >> suitable for an outlook address book, but it can't authenticate against > >> its own LDAP server let alone a different instance. > > ---- > > perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE > > I guess I always expected 'Fedora Directory Server' to be part of Fedora > and come set up to work. Maybe I missed something obvious here... ---- coming from the guy who last week decried that it seemed the intent of Fedora was to be a self-contained distribution, this is extremely laughable. It is impossible to know where you are coming from. Craig
