Re: Directory enabled distribution
In article <[🔎] 19990306144310.D14525@visi.net> you write:
>I would like to start a discussion on having potato be directory
>enabled. Basically this means support for LDAP in packages.
>
>Currently we have the ability to setup systems with LDAP based ns (ie,
>passwd, account, hosts, aliases...NIS in a nutshell) and utilities to
>utilize that. Pam_ldap enables authentication through the LDAP server
>and nss_ldap enables lookups from native libc calls to the LDAP
>server for hosts password info, group info, shadow info and more.
>There is also a php3 module now that allows for direct access to an
>LDAP server from scripts.
I don't understand - in what way is LDAP better then NIS?
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