On Tuesday, November 08, 2005, at 09:29AM, Matthew Chapman
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking at using my Xserve to host mail accounts for users and
their accounts would also allow them web space. I am not interested
in users having to do lookups to find each other since it is more of
an ISP scenario. Is their any reason to use OD? In short what is
the limitation for using Stand Alone Mode for authentication and
simply choosing Crypt or Shadow passwords when I create users.
Using the LDAP give you the ability to grow and spread out across
servers as the load increases. If you put evryone in the local NIDB,
then you are constrained to that one box.
Placing the users in either LDAP or MySQL spaces also allows you to
deploy RADIUS for such task in an ISP environment.
--
-dhan
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