Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ron Van Dam" <> | Subject | RE: FW: OT: Integrating Directory Services for Linux | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:20:56 -0400 |
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Chris Siebenmann wrote: >> What if some less then enthusiastic has semi-mangled a /etc file.
> Then the registry breaks in the same way. There is always something >that someone can do to screw the machine up; moving where most of the >data is stored doesn't change that. At most it reduces the number of >knobs someone can break off.
Not true. First I would like to say the a directory service isn't a registry. It's a database to store information in a organized system. There is nothing organized about the windows registry! The window registry is nothing more than a huge INI file with bits and pieces of information everywhere. It has no schema to pervent anyone from adding an bits of information anywhere they want.
With a text file I can put anything in it. I can make a 100 MB resolv.conf file if I wanted too. With a structured schema, the configuration can pretty much be locked down what information is summitted or changed.
> No one dealing with a large collective of Unix machines is managing >them on a one-by-one basis. They are driving configurations out of a >central system for managing them, in some form or way, and if they have >any sense individualization is strongly discouraged if not exterminated. >(There are some quite elaborate systems for doing this, going so far as >to store everything in SQL databases. See various LISA proceedings.)
Do you see DS as a bad thing for Linux? Tell why you think having a DS system for Linux would be a terrible waste?
Thanks, Ron
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