RE: LDAP vs SQL

[Tracy R Reed <treed@ultraviolet.org>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Luke Howard wrote:

> You could update the password file atomically if you so wished, just like
> vipw does. For example, you could dump users from LDAP into a temporary
> file, and then move the temporary file to /etc/passwd.
> 
> Anyway, I suggest you give nss_ldap a whirl before attempting such

Thanks for everyones input on this. I will give nss_ldap a try on my Linux
box but for actual production use I will need all of the systems working
the same way. Since that module is not available for HP and SCO, I think I
will have to atomically update whole configuration files for now.

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