Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 02:45:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, robert@cyrus.watson.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) Message-ID: <199804090245.TAA23164@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980407214109.2822A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Apr 7, 98 09:42:15 pm
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> > An interesting question is of the high-volume FreeBSD-based web servers, > > how many would want to purchase the Netscape product rather than just > > using Apache? > > I think there would be more interest in the other stuff that makes up > SuiteSpot like the integrated mail and news server with LDAP support > combined with a web interface. LDAP runs under FreeBSD, but even with all the patches, it's not *quite* the same as the NetScape, which runs a full v3 LDAP. The UMICH LDAP + Critical Angle patches + Terry patches is nearly a full v3 LDAP. But there is little subschema support, and the NULL basedn support/namingcontexts attributes are not happy. I *do* have a method of getting the basedn using "cn=config" with a stock server now, so that's not tottaly necessary any more. Oh yeah; I also have the following schema's: RFC2307 (use and LDAP server ti store NIS information) Netscape (same as the Netscape LDAP server schema) And a couple others I won't discuss yet. 8-). So it wouldn't be that hard. But that'd be a heck of a kick in the face as a reward for releaseing free software: "release one of your tools under a free license, and that will trigger us to duplicate all the rest of them". Be a bit of a bad thing for anyone in the future considering doing the same thing. I'll probably put the basedn autodetection code into the Mozilla port, when it firms up a bit, and make the "search root" part of the directory dialog optional (default = autodetect radio button, or something like that). Oh yeah. I have part of a getpwent/gethostent/getprotoent/... set of libc function replacements done (the Linux ones suck, and they don't compile anyway, and they're LGPL'ed) so that you can boot a FreeBSD box using an RFC2307 LDAP server instead almost all of the files normally found in /etc/passwd (the ones that NIS+ can serve, anyway). 8-) 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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