FC2 and general LDAP Support

[Roland Käser]

Hi

Whats wrong with the home users? You can bind the ldap server only to 
the localhost device. And if all the command line tools are customized 
for that, it would not make any changes for the home users. They can 
just create, modify and delete users as the normal passwd database. But 
it would get many advantages for the professional users and the network 
administrators. Think about all the other "operating systems" which have 
user directory support. There are many other possibilities for future 
releases such as saving the bind (DNS) structure inside the ldap, 
hosting the printers information from cups in the ldap,  mail routing 
information for postfix and courier etc. This main ldap infrastructure 
would be a big improvement to the distribution. And there are many other 
daemons which running on a "normal" system, one more whould doesn't matter.

Roland

Ralph Angenendt schrieb:

>Roland Käser wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>What about moving the user database to LDAP for the FC2 release? 
>>    
>>
>
>In general? Yikes! There's home users using Fedora, why throw LDAP unto
>them - there's another daemon which has to run and be secured.
>
>Ralph
>  
>

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