Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:12:12 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: import nss_ldap, openldap in base? Message-ID: <200705101612.24127.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4642852B.2050804@delphij.net> References: <803684.68923.qm@web54309.mail.yahoo.com> <4642852B.2050804@delphij.net>
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--nextPart2407306.U824bSDQqi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:06, LI Xin wrote: > Patrick Dung wrote: > > Personally I think that LDAP support out of the box is good (e.g > > other OS already has LDAP support out of the box, get more users to > > use it). > > > > We already have programs like bsnmp, pam_radius, Kerberos and OPIE > > integrated/comes with the base OS. Is Openldap(client library, not > > server), nss_ldap/pam_ldap support in base OS worth more attention? > > I think that importing the whole OpenLDAP client into base system > as-is is useful, but that might be painful, because the development > pace of OpenLDAP is fast and people do want bugfixes, etc. from newer > OpenLDAP releases, so we should work carefully to avoid conflict > between base OpenLDAP and port OpenLDAP. So I think we may want what > we did for libbsdxml (expat) if we really wanted to import the stuff > into base system. IMO if pam_ldap is on the first disk of a CD it counts as "out of the=20 box". From a user perspective it is right there and available if they=20 want to use it. You could claim that pam_winbind should be imported too since I bet it's=20 used in more installations than pam_ldap. As you can probably guess I am more inclined to remove things than keep=20 them in.. :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2407306.U824bSDQqi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGQr7Q5ZPcIHs/zowRAp4LAJ98C4w4zVT3v+D8cz94qi3USlg5FwCfXffL ox+ZeXAL7fMca27FyV9Ym8k= =ylbR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2407306.U824bSDQqi--
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