Ww Want You! [Was:at and cron vs. ldap]

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:38, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Stephen Walton wrote:

[Masterfully important things, written clear as a bell, snipped]

    Dudes!  Both of you!

    You're in possession of something that's very important to the Linux
movement, and you might not even realize it yet: Sendmail/LDAP
integration.

    Please, PLEASE write up a HOWTO on this, willya?  A lot of us have
been struggling to work this LDAP authentication going for a long time. 
And your writing styles are lucid, easy going, and wonderful.

    Right now this 'active directory' crap is keeping a lot of Linux
from being installed on thousands of company's servers because while
there IS a Linux alternative, so very few people understand all of the
component parts.  Your writing the HOWTO would give people a reason to
start experimenting and we'd all be up to speed on it...me, included!

    I've messed with LDAP-for-authentication task a good 8-10 times now
and I've gotten a server that has the data, but can't authenticate.
Adding the the sendmail part would shine a lotta light on the entire
'one password' concept that's so beneficial to so many people.

    There's little I can do, but I've plenty of time to do it in; I'm
stuck in a 'gravity well' of unemployment in a small town.  Let me do
some of it: want me to maintain it, and you guys add to it?  I'll answer
the mail.

    Just let me know: this is very important to all of us. I'll do
whatever I'm able to see this through.  (And won't even mention the OT
nature of the topic- it's important to Fedora!)

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Brian Fahrländer                 Researcher, Conservative, and Technomad
Evansville, IN                                     http://Fahrlander.net
ICQ  5119262              Microsoft never invented email; that was Unix.
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