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Re: [ldapext] Unfinished business: password policy and VLV
John McGarvey wrote:
>
> Gavin,
>
> The links you point to describe what is in OpenLDAP. The problem I
> observe is that there are a number of widely implemented features in
> directories from Sun and Microsoft and Novell and IBM and others, which
> are reasonably interoperable and based on RFC drafts, but for which
> there are no RFCs. In addition to VLV and Password Policy, Persistent
> Search is another in this category. Now, LCUP is arguably more complete
> than Persistent Search, but except for OpenLDAP, I don't know who
> implements it.
>
> The problem here is that we have some RFCs that are implemented in 0 or
> 1 LDAP servers, and a few shared functions that many servers have for
> which there are no RFCs. One goal of the RFCs is to promote
> interoperability, and so it would be good if we had RFCs for Persistent
> Search, Password Policy, and VLV.
>
Sure, that is a great goal, but if all the vendors have some varying
degree of these features already, how likely is it that an RFC would be
implemented so far down the line?
I know it would be quick for some of the features you list with OpenLDAP.
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