FC2 and general LDAP Support

[Iain Rae]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 00:16, Roland Käser wrote:
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>>Think of blade servers for web-application clusters. In a number of 50 
>>to 100 servers. With the ldap system it might be possible to just 
>>remotly install a new blade. It this installation starts for the first 
>>time, it takes all the configuration settings out of an centralized 
>>configuration store and works after that automaticly. If its need to 
>>change the default start page of a webserver, the connection to the 
>>database for the applications, etc. with that system it needs just to be 
>>changed in the central config store and not on every single machine.
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>>>While I am an LDAP advocate and agree that an admin tool for managing
>>>users and groups in LDAP would be an appreciated addition (and maybe
>>>managing printers and such there too), using it as the default would be
>>>way overkill.  There are simply too many problems and it's not easy for
>>>the less experienced to deal with.
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>>It is not ment that with an LDAP Server all the users needs to know 
>>about LDIF-files, schema files etc. The goal behind it should be that 
>>the users doesn't needs to know all about that. They should can 
>>administrate the system as it was bevore.
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>I didn't say I wasn't against LDAP ;-), but against a registry-like
>repository like Windoze Registry. I even don't like GNOME's GConf.
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>While I worked at Sun, I worked heavily with Sun ONE products. Nearly
>all of them store their configuration on a centralized LDAP server. But
>as someone said, having LDAP used by default is overkill.We must work
>towards this goal: all applications should support LDAP, but also should
>support local files and use them by default. For some scenarios, LDAP is
>not suitable, like for example, appliances or servers running on the
>DMZ. I think that deploying an LDAP server on the DMZ is overkill.
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Also you get into all kinds of fun and games with laptops, if you want 
to use them disconnected then you're
going to have to run a local ldap server and deal with all the 
replication issues that go with it.


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