gconf2 and openldap

[Kay Abendroth]

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Duane Whitty wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:40:42PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote:
>> Not sure I understand why gconf would have a dependency on ldap.
>>
> After reading the gconftools-2 man page, am I understanding
> correctly that gconf can use openldap for its schema storage,
> thus providing a distributed configuration environment?

To be honest I don't know how gconf works and how to configure it. But
this what wikipedia.org says:
  "[...]the default backend is based on XML. At this time, this is the
only working backend for GConf, although a LDAP backend existed in
embryonic form [...]"

> This in a way seems like something I read about for using ldap
> as an inventory management system.
> 
> So, noticing firefox uses gconf at runtime, this could mean then
> that firefox could ask gconf to get configuration preferences
> for the current user from anywhere on the network, using ldap, which would
> be useful for diskless clients, for example?

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