Re: lock down features

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 19:05, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> > Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:48:15PM -0800, George Farris escribió:
> > >I'm interested in looking into an LDAP backend if I can get some initial
> > >assistance about how and what we would like.
> > 
> > 	LDAP (or ACAP if it's not dead and with only one server written 
> > in an exotic language) gconf backend will be great for a very interesting 
> > feature for GNOME 2.6 or 3.0: Mobility (store your configuration in a
> > server, and in any computer you log-in you get it )
> > 
> > Salu2
> 
> I would vote for LDAP as it's already used for authentication of UNIX
> and Samba, (go samba 3.0!!! :-))

You want to do some research on this before leaping in to do too much
work. In aprticular, have a look at the gconf-list archives. Last year,
somebody posted an RFC about an LDAP solution (there was even some
sample code, from memory).

Also somebody brought up on that list (in August) about the problem of
making LDAP do notifications of changes (which is a required property
for GConf). At the time, the people who knew stuff thought this wasn't
possible, but they may be wrong.

This part of the thread is now off-topic for desktop-devel, so I'll
leave it here and you can start some discussion on gconf-list if you
want.

Malcolm

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