Hello
Are you advocating the elimination of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
altogether, or just storing all user accounts in LDAP?
No, I don't wanna "switch" to LDAP. I suggesting only to have an
installation option under "Authentification configuration" to install an
LDAP Server instead of using /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Not as an
average replacement just as an installation option such as using
winbindd, NIS, or Kerberos in case of installing a network server to
have these work on the ldap server done by the installation rater than
doing it later by hand.
Roland
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>"RK" == Roland Käser
<roli(a)israel-jugendtag.ch> writes:
RK> Hello Can we please discuss this point about an preinstalled LDAP
RK> Server on System Install for storing user account data by default?
Are you advocating the elimination of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
altogether, or just storing all user accounts in LDAP? For a regular
desktop machine not integrated into a larger computing environment,
this would seem to be overkill. For a machine that has to integrate
into a network, this is already done.
So what's left? A standalone machine with a large number of users?
- J<