[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-02-19 23:20:23 +0000, David Froble said:

> As initially claimed, I don't have day to day hands on experience with 
> VMS clusters.  It was my impression that the scope of the common data 
> was greater than just login authentication.

It is.

> My vague impression of LDAP is that it's mainly for login authentication.

Distributed database containing replicated trees of objects, such as 
configurations potentially including user phone numbers and addresses, 
server configuration data and contact information, application 
configuration data, application locations, etc.   In OpenVMS terms and 
beyond the core cluster and user data, LDAP can conceivably store your 
mail settings and particular mail server, Notes conference settings, 
your preferred email address, and various other details that might be 
useful, as well as the particular server settings and server contact 
information, server-level security information, which servers or which 
users are parts of which groupings, and application-specific 
configuration data such as database locations,   All of this can be 
stored in the directory.

It's a distributed database, and one that's been optimized for read access.

> If my understanding is not correct, then I need to do more reading.  (I 
> hate that.)

Um, sorry about that...


http://www.ldapman.org/articles/intro_to_ldap.html
http://coewww.rutgers.edu/www1/linuxclass2003/lessons/lecture8.html
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/intro.html
etc.

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