Centralized DB of "system" users

[Peter Boosten]

Dan wrote:
> Matthew Seaman(m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +0000:
>> Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a
>> RDBMS system like MySQL.   And like MySQL, there are right times, places
>> and ways to use it, and wrong ones too.  Yes, there is a lot of complexity,
>> but that means there's a lot of flexibility too.
> 
>> 	Cheers,
>>
>> 	Matthew
> 
> I can't disagree more. LDAP is way simpler than any SQL database, even
> SQLite. That said because people are not familiar/don't grock the
> simplicity of LDAP, they decide to use SQL databases (partly because
> everyone else does). 

For the persistent ones: you can have openldap with a mysql backend :-)
I agree completely.

Peter
-- 
http://www.boosten.org