On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:08 +0100, John Hearns wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 10:47, Steve Brenneis wrote: > > Without detouring off-topic too far, in certain situations, LDAP > > configuration allows for consistency that may be critical. For instance, > > in some parallel and clustered systems that share resources like file > > systems, memory, and even process space, identical configuration of > > users, groups, and other details is essential. > ... > > That's just one example. I'm sure there are more. > > > I agree. I think that LDAP coudl be used more on clusters. > > I think though that people see LDAP as a 'NIS replacement' for the users > and groups functions, and go for things like LCFG and cfengine for the > 'system' type settings. Just my two penny worth - as I think LDAP could > have uses there too. Yeah, of couse... LDAP can keep authentication/identification data accessible from the network, but not configuration data. Keeping critical configuration on the network creates unnecessary points of failures. Please, let's try to keep configuration data centrally.
