From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 10:30:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03070 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles250.castles.com [208.214.165.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03045 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00903; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808131728.KAA00903@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Giao Nguyen cc: Mike Smith , Peter van Heusden , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving ahead with LDAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:46:33 EDT." <19980812184633.A18658@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:28:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith said: > > > > This seems to parallel work that was being done by another party whose > > name has been eaten by my mailer (Giao, you know who you are). > > Damn he's persistent :) Ask yourself; why is he pushing me to do something? Did I promise to do it? Am I late in delivering? 8) > > Are there any portable LDAPv3 servers available? Is the UMich server > > at a developmental dead-end? > > In the exact order asked. I can't think of any except for UMich* and I > hope not. There will be some significant ripping aparts to get it to v3 > and it'll require some significant chunks of work. I've reached the same > state as Peter (well, except for the port part. I haven't put together > the files for that, but it's not v3 yet so what's the point?). The point is that 2.2 is better than nothing, even if it's not 3.0. We do need to start somewhere, even if it means starting with an older standard. Given that we have code for this, and it works, it would seem to make more sense to focus elsewhere than to waste resources playing version catch-up games. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message