LDAP integration

[Darren Pilgrim]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20070111035549.7c11a450 at vixen42>, Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net> typed:
>> LDAP is nice organizing across many systems, but if you are just
>> dealing with one computer it is complete over kill for any thing.
> 
> In that situation, it's not merely overkill, it's may actually be a
> bad idea. Can you say "AIX SDR"? How about "Windows registry"?
> 
> Those system both took the approach of putting all the configuration
> information in a central database. This creates problems because the
> tools needed to examine/fix the config database require a complex
> environment - at least compared to a statically linked copy of
> ed. LDAP may not be so bad, but it still makes me nervous.
> 
> On the other hand, if you've got a flock of boxes to manage, having a
> way to tell the rc subsystem "Go read config values from this LDAP
> server" seems like a very attractive alternative.

And to think, all these years I've been wasting my time and effort using 
NFS and rsync to centralize the configurations of server farms.

-- 
Darren Pilgrim