Hearns, John said the following on 04/29/2013 12:42 PM:
However, the original poster asked for 'LDAP like' change management - I rather thought she might like to look at Puppet.
Where is this "Change management"? I read it as a means of having central administration. "Change management" in a database would mean Git or something like that. Lynn works with LDAP as a central database so she would ask in terms of that. She might as well as "Why aren't the CRON tables implemented in LDAP just like all the other things we see in. for example, /etc/nsswitch.conf?" Its a reasonable question. The trouble is that pretty soon you get to ask why is /bin and /lib there as well? Does anyone remember the days of Novell when all the binaries were off on a central server? The ultimate in 'roving shares'. Well, yes, three such as thing as 'thin clients' and PXE and yes you can have all the binaries actually in 'database' although for convenience the 'database' is a file system and its all NFS mounted. It worked for SUN for a long while :-) I've set it up for varying degrees of 'thin'. See also the Linux Terminal Server Project. Remember, LDAP is only an access method: the database behind it can be implemented any which way, from flat files up to the most grandiose RDBMS. LDAP itself can be 'distributed' and its backing database can be distributed as well. How complicated, or simple, do you want to make it? I can see putting crontabs in a database (and making it LDAP accessible) - that's quite another matter from putting scripts (i.e executables) in there. http://bytes.com/topic/postgresql/answers/400130-large-crontab-database-desi... -- Bullet proof vest vendors do not need to demonstrate that naked people are vulnerable to gunfire. Similarly, a security consultant does not need to demonstrate an actual vulnerability in order to claim there is a valid risk. The lack of a live exploit does not mean there is no risk. - Crispin Cowan, 23 Aug 2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org