On Thursday, November 4, 2010 21:32 CET, Theo de Raadt
<dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
> > On second thought, I should answer with a little less snark, though I
> > think this one attribute sums it up pretty well.
> >
> > First, some committee sat around and tried to come up with all the
> > things needed to describe a person, like license plates and pager
> > numbers and who your secretary is. It's like it's custom built for
> > handling the personnel records of IBM management. They made all this
> > nonsense optional thankfully, but who's to say there aren't other
> > attributes you need to store in your organization? Now you're off
> > making your own schema. Adios interop!
> >
> > Second, the file formats seem purpose designed to be incomprehensible.
> >
> > Third, just doing something as simple as putting a single user record
> > into the db using ldapadd involved an insane amount of typing of magic
> > incantations. This is not entirely the tool's fault, there's just so
> > much "stuff" involved it bubbles up to the user whether they like it
> > or not.
> >
> > On the whole, "infinite flexibility" is pretty much synonymous with
> > "infinite complexity".
>
> not enough axe murderers.
>
> note to axe murderers: ietf and other such organizations are purposely
> weak at checking badges at their events, because who would want to go
> to them? use this to your advangage. the people attending these
> meetings are generally pretty unfit and move slowly, so you don't need
> a large, long handled axe -- something small will do.
>
I like that, and probably worth a fortune cookie, starting with a dedicated
cookie file just for theo!
OK? ;)
cheers,
Sebastian
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 Makefile
--- Makefile 26 Sep 2003 03:08:44 -0000 1.6
+++ Makefile 5 Nov 2010 07:23:58 -0000
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 1996/02/29 00:21:16 jtc Exp $
# @(#)Makefile 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
-SRCS= fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy recipes
+SRCS= fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy recipes theo
BLDS= fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat \
- fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat recipes.dat
+ fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat recipes.dat theo.dat
# TO INSTALL THE POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE FORTUNES, UNCOMMENT THE THREE
# LINES AND COMMENT OUT THE FOURTH LINE.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
${INSTALL} ${INSTALL_COPY} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 444 ${BLDS} \
${DESTDIR}/usr/share/games/fortune
-fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat fortunes2-o.dat limerick.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat
recipes.dat:
+fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat fortunes2-o.dat limerick.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat
recipes.dat theo.dat:
${STRFILE} -rs ${.CURDIR}/${.TARGET:R} ${.TARGET}
fortunes-o.dat: fortunes-o
Index: theo
===================================================================
RCS file: theo
diff -N theo
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ theo 5 Nov 2010 07:23:58 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+note to axe murderers: ietf and other such organizations are purposely
+weak at checking badges at their events, because who would want to go
+to them? use this to your advangage. the people attending these
+meetings are generally pretty unfit and move slowly, so you don't need
+a large, long handled axe -- something small will do.
+
+Theo de Raadt on tech@ answering the thread: document ldapd schema files
+
