Re: FC2 and general LDAP Support

["Nils O." Selåsdal <nos utel no>]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:18, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland K=E4ser?= wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> What about moving the user database to LDAP for the FC2 release? It 
> would be possible to integrate also the samba part of the user records 
> directly to the LDAP directory.  The only thing we need is a useful ldap 
> administration frontend and the command line tools for creating and 
> modifying the user records from the command line. The most of the 
> command line tools are shipped with the samba source code. It it is 
> desired, i can make a RPM for that.

While I'm all for LDAP(and kerberos for that matter) for authentication
and user information , moving the standard user database to ldap would
be very unneeded for the common home user.
I'd very much like to see a fullu featured ldap administration console
thoug, with specific tools for unix account management and similar. (gq
is to general)

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Nils Olav Selåsdal
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