Charlie Brady said: > > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben Johns wrote: > >> The manager will basically become redundant, so the chances are that the >> user-manager side of things will be disabled. > > Really? You haven't mentioned anything about a user interface - you only > mentioned the repository, i.e. "a centralised user directory". What user > interface to the LDAP repository were you planning to use? Does it do all > the validation that the server-manager currently does? > The updates will be done directly to the central directory - nothing should come 'from' an e-smith box. Well, that's the theory anyway.
>> It should be simple enough (once the update from LDAP script has been >> written) to also update the configuration file via the same database. > > It should be, if you can work out when it has changed. > >> The polling/change notification is what kept me up last night =) >> Something >> I still have to sit down and nut out I guess. > > As discussed, it's not such a simple problem. > > OTOH, you might consider keeping the server-manager, and extending it to > store more configuration and user data, and extend "signal-event" so that > it can notify other nodes in the network when interesting changes have > just been made. > > As Les has suggested, you could also use LDAP as the primary repository of > the configuration and account information, but I think you'll find that's > a lot of work for not a lot of return. The return will be that we won't have to independantly update the dozen or so E-Smith boxes along the eastern coast of QLD Australia. This is for the http://www.marinanet.com.au network - and I want to have the user accounts on each server (each marina) to be identical throughout, so users (yachtie's) can log into any 'enabled' marina with the same credentials. > -- > Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lead Product Developer > Network Server Solutions Group > Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/smallbusiness > Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 > > -- Regards, Ben Johns http://www.naturalnetworks.net http://www.marinanet.com.au http://www.accessplus.com.au -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
