On 2010/02/12 15:23, Mark Lumsden wrote: > Does anyone know what Theo was talking about in this post: > > http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archives/html/openbsd-misc/2009-12/msg00596.html > > "YP is good stuff. It is going to get us LDAP for nearly free." > > Could YP be/become a replacement for OpenLDAP?
That is client side (i.e. so you can login to OpenBSD from an LDAP directory), and is done via ypldap(8). http://bzero.se/ldapd/ looks like it could be the most promising option for the server side, at some time in the future. > > I'm getting more and more problems with OpenLDAP 2.3, and would really > > like to help "pioneer" the 2.4 porting effort. They're at 2.4.21 at the > > moment. A problem that started to crop up, with no error message, is > > that additions to the tree don't work the way they used to. I came round to the idea that the way forward is to have something like openldap23-server for people who need a non-BDB version, this would be self-contained, and then databases/openldap could be replaced with 2.4. The latter is already mostly done (may need updating but should be fairly straightforward). Making the standalone 2.3 server (which would have to build successfully with 2.4 installed) hasn't been started.
