Re: [ldapext] Password Policy OIDs

[Neil Dunbar <neil.dunbar@hp.com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 08:19 -0600, John McMeeking wrote:

> As to manageability of features from LDAP...  I guess that depends on where
> you want to draw the line.  I agree that it is nice if you don't have to
> use one set of tools to manage part of the policy and another to manage the
> rest.  On the other hand, other tools/storage mechanism may be much better
> suited to managing these than LDAP.  I don't think is necessary to store
> the dictionary in LDAP to be able to effectively manage a password policy
> that uses a dictionary.  One may want to share an existing dictionary used
> by other applications

Definitely - but there's no reason that an LDAP backend can't simply
present a read-only, searchable front-end to the standard dictionary
file. It doesn't follow that the LDAP interface must have a true
database behind it.

Cheers,

Neil


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