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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Friday 19 March 2004 20:45, John Nilsson wrote: |
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>>I think the best aproach to this is: |
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>>1. Standardize a configuration backend. |
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>> Fileformat, parsers, filesystemlocation and that stuff |
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>>2. Convince developers to follow the standard. |
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>>3. Interface with it |
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>> HTML, QT, GTK anything goes... |
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> If you want to replace all the text-based config files with something, now is |
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> not the time. Novell will probably port NDS from Netware onto SuSE. Chances |
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> are that they will want to try and re-establish NDS as a viable alternative |
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> to Microsoft's Active Directory, and they'll open NDS up to do so. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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Umm, NDS (or eDirectory as it is now called) has been available on Linux |
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for years (specifically redhat and suse) |
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They have an open API and eDirectory is far better than ADS in many |
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ways, i seriously doubt they'll open it up but they are doing huge |
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things in the opensource ldap area (since eDirectory is 100% LDAP compliant) |
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Novell has assures it's customers that eDirectory will continue to be |
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available on redhat despite Novell's ownership of SuSE.. |
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Joshua Brindle |
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