RE: Integrated Directory Service.

[Jorge Gomes Silva <jgs plurimarketing pt>]

Maybe there should be an abstraction layer API that would seat on top of 
whatever directory services are available on the network (LDAP, NDS, NT 
Domain, whatever). In that way, a directory service supplier would make 
available a driver to their product that would be compliant with the "Gnome 
directory service API".

Nothing was done regarding the issue of a directory service for GNOME so, 
this is the oportunity to get it right. If you look at Microsoft systems 
you'll see that there are several Directory services: a directory service 
for authentication of users in a Domain (allowing for access to files or 
printers in the domain), a separate directory for Exchange/Outlook, etc.. 
This could even be worked out with the KDE ppl because, as far as I know, 
they also don't have an integrated directory service.

I'd love to work on such a project. However I don't really have the time 
(and I'm not that good programmer).

Jorge.

On Monday, August 02, 1999 2:35 PM, James M. Cape [SMTP:jcape@jcinteract  
ive.com] wrote:
> allbery@ece.cmu.edu wrote:
> >
> > On  2 Aug, Jorge Gomes Silva wrote:
> > +-----
> > | Are there any plans for integrating a directory service into Gnome ?
> > | I think that is a "must" if Gnome wants to find a place in the 
enterprise.
> > +--->8
> >
> > The derision quotes are appropriate :)
> >
> > GNOME should *use* directory services.  It should NOT define its own,
> > nor should it have some preferred "integrated" directory service.
> > Please try to remember that some of us run GNOME on platforms that are
> > not Linux, and which include their own directory services; and
> > that enterprise sites generally have directory services in place
> > already and it is GNOME that will have to adapt to them, not vice 
versa.
>
> Ok, but should this be a GNOME thing, or an app thing? A library which
> accomplishes this would be nice, as it allows for app authors to easily
> code directory interfaces, but the core GNOME libraries are not the
> place for this (why load things into memory only one or two apps will
> use?).
>
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
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