David Boreham wrote:
Graham Leggett wrote:
That said, both Fedora and OpenLDAP use the DIT for config, so that
may be an XML free option :)
FDS doesn't exactly use the DIT. We had the same argument that you're
having, in 1997 or so, and
decided to write an 'ldif back end' for the server, specifically for
config (there had been an earlier
flat-file back end that provided some inspiration and possibly some
code). This replaced the original
UMich text config file (which I believe OpenLDAP still used until
recently). So while the config
manifests as LDAP entries, and can be read/written over-the-wire, it
is stored in a text file as LDIF.
If it were in the primary database, you'd have a chicken/egg problem.
OpenLDAP does the same thing. The idea is to have a LDIF based backend.
This is also something we are considering.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
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