Ubuntu Domain Server

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>>> Oh feel free to code the thing then. Just don't ask mom and pop whether
>>> they want their user account database in ldap or mysql or in passwd and
>>> shared via NIS+.
>>
>> My whole point has been that it could be done, while you've been saying
>> it couldn't.  Having apparently accepted that was wrong you raise
>> spurious issues about implementation.  What does where they want their
>> user accounts have to do with anything?  Pick a reasonable default and
>> use it.  Ask them if they already have a user source, and use that.  If
>> mom & pop are setting up an initial system, they'll happily use whatever
>> you give them.
>>
> 
> There was never a question of "if". The question is how wise is it to
> give a TIG welder to an eight year old and to tell him that he can
> build a hotrod. Or to give a scalpel to a six year old and to tell him
> that if his tummy hurts he can take out the hurting part.

In the first place, nothing they can do in the world of server configuration 
is going to be that hazardous, and in the second, it's not and never has 
been about whether it's wise to let them do that: THEY WILL DO IT.  So it's 
in _everybody's_ best interest to give them the tools that will prevent them 
shooting themselves in the foot and making the innertubes worse for 
everybody.
-- 
derek