Russell Hires wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:17 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> All this is keen and all. I suppose it would be okay for a huge company
>> like IBM, where you have tons of employees, and you want a universally
>> accessible way to dig up internal phone numbers, email addresses, etc.
>> But beyond that, I don't see a lot of other uses for this. For example,
>> could LDAP be somehow hooked up to some other part of the O/S to govern
>> what permissions people have to various directories?
>
> Yes, and this has been done, just not by me. ;-) As far as other uses, I
> saw how a guy was able to put Bible passages into a directory...and it
> was useful, but I don't know exactly how or why at this moment. It's
> been a while since I did any LDAP anything.
>
So instead of using the usual Linux O/S permissions mechanism on an NFS
exported directory, I could use LDAP to allow my wife and I to
read-write-search/alter/delete in that directory? Is the plumbing to do
this hairy and not worth the effort?
Paul
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