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Old 17th April 2006   #12 (permalink)
BenM
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(copying static configuraiton files)
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Originally Posted by racksense

This is actually a very good idea for many reasons.
Apart from the KISS philosophy, do you have any in mind?

Unfortunately the author of our current scripts didn't believe in KISS, so it's either a complete rewrite or use LDAP.

As I see it, the pros of using LDAP are:

- replication is taken care of for you
- the data can be accessed directly by multiple types and instances of systems

What are the cons? Reliability?
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