Novell rant, and other assorted Linux rants

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Bodenheimer
>
> [snip]
> of effort to do it on a Linux box.  The Linux box will be the 
> lower cost 
> way, but, jesus, it would take a long ass time.
> Why?  Because setting up a site wide authentication system is total 
> hell.  Linux sucks at it.  I have tried to figure out LDAP 
> for 2 weeks 
> now, and all I end up with is dead machines that don't let anything 
> logon.  Personally, I am tired of it.  So, now I have 2 servers, a 
> windows box, and Linux box.  All because Samba+PDC+LDAP = unmitigated 
> hell that I don't have time for.  If there is any ONE thing 
> that the OSS 
> world needs to fix, it's a directory system that your average 
> new user 
> can set up.
> 
> Anyone here know of a Linux distro that just abandons this crap of 
> passwd files? One that ships with a ...
IIRC, Mandrake ships with LDAP enabled, and will install Samba.
I don't know what PDC is (Promiscuous Data Compression?). I once
looked at using LDAP in Mandrake to do something with security. I 
didn't spend too much time on it though as I found LDAP to be
to arcane. I'm not sure what you are looking to do, but why
do you need Samba+PDC+LDAP. Why not just Samba? It's easy enough
to set up that a 'secretary' could do it. Usually the simplest
answer is the correct one. Don't add complexity unless you
really need it.  ;)

Brian