Craig White wrote: > At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less > a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better > than the other for most purposes and even things like the consoles in > Fedora-DS aren't going to make it any easier for you to use LDAP if you > don't understand how it works. In short, there really aren't decent > shortcuts to using LDAP if you don't care to actually understand how and > why it works. I think the standards bodies have failed us badly on this front. People don't want to understand LDAP any more than they want to understand the bits in a TCP packet header. They just want systems to interoperate. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com