On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:34:58PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > Heh--well, since I've written my own page on it, it's gotten better. RH > > didn't help by making some undocumented changes, but once again, the > > CentOS folks got it documented. > > I did have some notes, but dunno if I ever emailed 'em to myself from my > job in '06, but though it took me about a month, I managed to get it up, > with the help of a dozen or so links, after wading through dozens of > links, and lots of folks begging for help (and not getting any), and *way* > outdated stuff.... > > That's basically what I did--wrote up my notes and put up the page that I wished I'd had when first trying to wrap my head around it. Like many opensource things, it's not as hard as it seems, once you realize how it's done. > > (Although the part about LDAP documentation is not trolling, I think > > it's pretty much an accepted thing. The Active Directory part was, of > > course, a troll.) > > And their utterly inadequate tools. LDAP's, or AD's? Our Windows admin teaches mixed martial arts as a sideline, so I don't argue too much with him. :) All kidding aside, to the OP, though it's not a cool thing--it's one of the crummy things in many cases--finding docs to supplement the often inadequate official documentation is pretty durn important. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6