OT: Directory Services and linux

[Steve Holmes]

Is there some good documentation on LDAP? When I looked at the
documentation that came with openldap, I got lost in the weeds,
overwelmed and my head was swimming.  For whatever reason, it just
looked like complete over-kill to me.  I really don't have a good
grasp on what LDAP can do for me.  I originally thought it was a
litteral directory server like for mail and address books; that was
probably my first mistake.:)

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote:
> You want to look at openldap.  I am running it here on my personal network.  Id's are shared among all my machines, samba accounts
> and html accounts.  Works well.
> 
> Terry
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:59 -0400you write:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Have a few  linux machines running here that I'd like to have running a 
> >directory service to synchronise login information and the like.  I was 
> >just wondering, what's the best directory service to run these days? I 
> >had to take an intro to Unix class for school, and that mentioned NIS, 
> >which I had looked into in the past...though I just read the ORielly 
> >book on that and it seemed to say that NIS should only be used until 
> >newer alternatives became stable, and the book was about 5 years old.  
> >Being able to interoperate with windows hosts would be nice also, though 
> >I'm not holding my breath...
> >Any help would be apreciated.
> >
> >-- 
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> >       ment is found.  For example, "if  (0  ==  1)  quit"
> >       will cause bc to terminate.
> >	-- seen in the manpage for "bc". Note the "if" statement's logic
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