On Mon, December 4, 2006 11:41 am, David Zeuthen wrote:
Moreover, with the policy daemons reading settings from gconf, who
knows, maybe the system administrator can just tweak a few settings in
the Fedora Directory Server and the changes gets propagated out to his
servers. I really think that's the user experience we want; not some set
of human-editable configuration files in /etc.
I'm not sure why LDAP is seen as a better alternative to /etc.
Every time I've tried using LDAP, it's been a horrific experience:
it's complex, complicated, and obscure. Why would we want _that_
to be the user experience?
Now, I'm all for centralized management, ease of use, etc. But LDAP
is just a mechanism to achieve that, and it's not at all clear that's
the best one for the job, and it's certainly not the only one.
There's not such a great incomaptibility between having easily
modifiable files in /etc and a good user experience. Why do they
have to be mutually exclusive?
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