Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ron Van Dam" <> | Subject | FW: OT: Integrating Directory Services for Linux | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:45:44 -0400 |
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IMHO, directory services for managing user accounts and permissions for linux is pretty dismal at this point. I know there are userland projects available for linux such as PAM and OpenLDAP, but they are relatively hard to set up and get working and fall short on delivery. If anyone has worked with Novell's NDS and tried emulate it with OpenLDAP and PAM you know what I mean.
Has anyone thought much about integrating DS for Linux. I thought it would be a real good idea to have a DS architecture built-in to linux to manage just about everything, from user accounts, service configuration parameters, mounts, kernel-modules, to function call security permissions. Having this level of functionally would be a significant improvement for the administrator who manages a large number of servers, especially for managing Linux for Desktop users.
I know some one out there is comparing this concept to the Windows registry. I was thinking that this would be a distributed database with journalling, with all of the checks of a filesystem to protect the database. The database would also need to be extensible so that userland developers can import schema to extend the functionally of the database. For instance, the database could be used to manage a DHCP or DNS server, or storing your user profile (.gnome or .kde) configurations. It should also support partitioning if I have multiple sites connected by a WAN, I can partition the database information so that only the essential information is replicated between sites and the WAN isn't clogged with replication traffic.
Comments?
Thanks for reading this Ron
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