Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] interested in helping

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:10:01PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     OK, I asked because we are thinking about switching from our scripted
>     SQL -> adduser replication to a LDAP-based setup.
> 
> For what little it's used, I set up and programmed with LDAP (quite
> briefly, years ago).  It was singularly painful to deal with; my overall
> impression was of an incomprehensibly overengineered system that made it
> very very hard to do any simple tasks in practice.  Why do you think it
> would be a win?  The scripted SQL/adduser seems pretty straightforward.

At the same time it's also one of the only form of external, reusable
user database that applications support.

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Sylvain