Re: Directory enabled distribution
> - Network configuration database. For example to store 'status' and
> 'available' info for packages. Would allow for easier system
> maintainence of large to medium networks. More than likely this would
> be implemented as a backend to what the admintool people are working
> on.
>
I think this is a great idea - we would want a Debian specific objectclass
(debianSystem) with objects which contain the output of dpkg --get-selections
for any particular machine. Running apt-get or similar would look up the
local host and get the selections it was supposed to have.
> > 2) Do we have an LDAP browser? I tried the Windows version that
> > Michigan distributed and found it wanting.
>
> I have been looking at some of the GUI browsers, as well as some web
> based browsers using php3. This kind of usage is what it will take to
> make LDAP approachable by most people.
>
The directory bits of Netscape 4.5 are quite good as a browser for the people
bits.
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> OpenLDAP Core - bcollins@openldap.org bcollins@debian.org
> UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems The Choice of the GNU Generation
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