----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Yerkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Interested in writing QPopper patch
> DBM is pretty ancient, I've used Berkeley DB for all things
> map since 1993 or so.
That's actually what's in use here; dbm is just a genericism.
> That said, LDAP is here and solid and very valuable for keeping
> maps in. I make a change in LDAP, and 3 MTAs see it right away
> (same as with Hesiod when I used that in the early-mid 90s).
[snip]
I'm working in at least three environments that will NEVER be updated to
NIS+ or LDAP. I cannot convince the owners that the time necessary to
centralize the user store is worth the billing, and I'm not apt to do it for
free. Ergo, these environments will remain flat-file with a half-assed
implementation of cron-based replication.
As for my own, I intend to use NIS+. Anything that uses PAM will be able to
use the NIS+ user store. (I'm working in Solaris 8, BTW.) I considered
LDAP, but I've had a complete dog of a time getting LDAP to work properly
(OpenLDAP won't compile, and nothing wants to recognize LDAP libraries that
are supposedly installed already.) I understand Solaris 9 has LDAP
natively, but I'm just building up flight hours for 9, and not in any
production environment.
So in the long run, a central user-store approach is where I will go,
working under PAM so I can utilize NIS+, LDAP, Active Directory, or
whatever. But I need to start somewhere.
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