LDAP

[Roland Käser]

Hello

 > Are you advocating the elimination of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
 > altogether, or just storing all user accounts in LDAP?

No, I don't wanna "switch" to LDAP. I suggesting only to have an 
installation option under "Authentification configuration" to install an 
LDAP Server instead of using /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Not as an 
average replacement just as an installation option such as using 
winbindd, NIS, or Kerberos in case of installing a network server to 
have these work on the ldap server done by the installation rater than 
doing it later by hand.

Roland


Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>"RK" == Roland Käser <roli at israel-jugendtag.ch> writes:
> 
> 
> RK> Hello Can we please discuss this point about an preinstalled LDAP
> RK> Server on System Install for storing user account data by default?
> 
> Are you advocating the elimination of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
> altogether, or just storing all user accounts in LDAP?  For a regular
> desktop machine not integrated into a larger computing environment,
> this would seem to be overkill.  For a machine that has to integrate
> into a network, this is already done.
> 
> So what's left?  A standalone machine with a large number of users?
> 
>  - J<
>