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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] authentication by LDAP?
Date: Mon,  2 Jan 2006 20:53:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060103025301.D63B41E4137@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0601021834i45b280a3jc73fe1c00a901728@mail.gmail.com>

i read to much into "in the form of flat files." i guess we're in noisy agreement.

- erik


Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> writes

| 
| > if one wrote an ldap fileserver that served up ndb-stype tuples in a standard
| > format, all the ndb library would need is a hook to talk to this fileserver instead
| > of parsing an ndb file. you could do the same with dns and other protocols.
| 
| yes.  and steve was saying that the hook could be
| you mount the file server somewhere and then use
| the name of its ndb file in /lib/ndb/local.  ndb can just
| access a file like it always has been, never caring
| what kind of file server provides the file.
| 
| russ


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-29 22:32 Paweł Lasek
2006-01-02 12:35 ` Steve Simon
2006-01-03  1:12   ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-03  1:15     ` Russ Cox
2006-01-03  2:13       ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-03  2:34         ` Russ Cox
2006-01-03  2:53           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-01-03 14:20   ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-03 17:20     ` Dan Cross
2006-01-04 22:13       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-07  3:13     ` erik quanstrom

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