On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:10:01PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > OK, I asked because we are thinking about switching from our scripted > SQL -> adduser replication to a LDAP-based setup. > > For what little it's used, I set up and programmed with LDAP (quite > briefly, years ago). It was singularly painful to deal with; my overall > impression was of an incomprehensibly overengineered system that made it > very very hard to do any simple tasks in practice. Why do you think it > would be a win? The scripted SQL/adduser seems pretty straightforward.
At the same time it's also one of the only form of external, reusable user database that applications support. -- Sylvain
