Kudos to OpenLDAP developers

[Brent Bice <bbice@sgi.com>]

   After skimming my OpenLDAP email and seeing a few snide comments 
about OpenLDAP and/or documentation, I felt compelled to post a 
thank-you to all the folks working on OpenLDAP.

   Our LDAP needs have been uber-simple until recently but OpenLDAP has 
been rock solid and just worked without complaint, failures, or 
replication problems.

   I recently had to setup a fancier set of LDAP servers for doing 
authentication/authorization for giant clusters of servers, so for the 
first time I found myself needing other overlays like accesslog and 
ppolicy and although I had to spend a bit of time RTFM'ing (oh no, not 
that! - grin) I found them like my previous experience with OpenLDAP - 
they just worked.

   And other than needing to start slapd with a larger max number of 
File descriptors to handle thousands of clients all suddenly connecting 
and doing queries simultaneously (slaps forehead - I shoulda expected 
this), we've had no problems.

   So to everyone who's spent late nights 'n weekends digging through 
the source code looking for bugs, or adding new overlays, thanks.  It's 
appreciated...


Brent