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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:48:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SQL Interface - very wild idea (WAS: Browser interface)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002114400.28900D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710021253.IAA10563@radford.i-plus.net>

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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Troy Settle wrote:

> Having an extensible SQL/ODBC system would be ideal for both local and
> network configuration, user management, etc...  The only drawback, would be

...

> -    a user's database could be used for many things, password files, access
> logs (local, radius, etc).  This would be especially useful in an ISP or
> academic environment.
> -    a host database could be used for local configuration information
> (fstab, host info, dns info, network database info, manpath, checksums,
> etc...)
> -    a network database, consisting of all your hosts' databases and more,
> could be used to keep all your network configurations handy and in order

Isn't this more or less the sort of thing LDAP is designed to
address?

-john




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