Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:30, Brooks Davis wrote:
> My life would be a heck of a lot simpler if LDAP support were included
> in the base.  At the moment I'm using NIS in several situations where
> it just doesn't cut it any more.  IMO we need (as a minimum) a modern
> network directory service client in the base.  While a majority of
> FreeBSD users may not need LDAP in the base, I would suspect that a
> majority of machines would benefit from it.  A much greater portion of
> machines would probably benefit from and LDAP client then benefit from a
> number of the servers in the base system such as BIND (not a criticism
> of having BIND in the base).

I don't see why building it from ports is difficult.. That's what I do.

Your argument applies to a few hundred other ports :)

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