On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:

> >>I've had exactly the same issue. When you rebuild the openldap package
> >>on your box, with only the BR installed it will work with your current
> >>
> >
> >"BR"?
> >
> BuildRequires, of course! Who can do without it?
>
> >>DB. The package in cooker also works, but you'll first need to export

But maybe the BuildConflicts are more important in this case?

> >>your DB to a .ldiff file and then import it into a fresh(?) database.
> >>Nice upgrade path for the people using a mandrake box as an LDAP
> >>server... It's sad, but true.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hm - so I've got to "rpmbuil --rebuild openldap-2.0.27-4mdk.src.rpm",
> >install this package and it will be able to read the currently installed
> >DB?
> >
> It does on my box... Want my openldap-servers package?
>
> ah... why not scrap the LDAP / SASL / Kerberos and all the other
> distributed security related stuff. Security doesn't bring anything...
> it only costs money..
>

It is not the security that is the advantage, it is the distributed ...
(unless someone has kerberos working, in which case I want some details
;-)) BTW, I have seen someone has had samba authenticate a win2k client
via kerberos (in a win2k domain with win2k KDC of cuorse). And even
rumours of some progress with a unix KDC ...

> We need more eye candy... Sex sells. Bring up the desktop pr0n!
>

Well, since my terminals all work fine (with ldap), I can work instead
;-).

Buchan

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