On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seriously, using things like kerberos and LDAP allow an OS to
be used by a much greater potential pool of users than would
be enabled by not including them.
I wonder what would be required to have mechanisms like
NIS and LDAP as optional plugins, instead of required
dependencies ...
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