Jim C. wrote:
How does the speed of SQL compare to the speed of LDAP? If the speeds are comparable, why bother with LDAP, which doesn't handle writes very well?
I can't comment on the speed, but as for the reasons for LDAP, some of us need fully networkable and redundant directory information structure. Also, aside from simply handling posix and sambaSam info, ours also does automount information, as well as a custom built directory security enfocement suite. Our mail server runs aliases off of it, and our intranet authenticates against it using posix groups for permissioning.
Does sql do all that? oh yeah, and be distributed.
Now here's one for you to try... if you want SQL someplace, how about configuring your ldap (assuming openldap) daemon to use back_sql? I've seen the complaints about berkely-db being shoddy, that should take it out of the equation.
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