How about: It's about as natural as waking up in your mud hut, picking up your handmade reed basket and spending hours foraging for berries, wild leeks and shrooms to feed your family dinner.
If, on the other hand, you rely on gigantic faceless corporations (like the ones that make your "Bunny Luv" baby carrots) to plant countless acres of perfectly aligned rows of monoculture plants using 20 ton tractors, spray them with massive doses of cancer-causing pesticides to prevent the inevitable single bacterium that causes the next Irish potato famine, irrigate them by siphoning off millions of gallons of water from rivers hundreds of miles away and reduce them to relative trickles (like the Colorado River), pump the soil full of chemical fertilizers that cause toxic runoff and poisons water supplies, harvest them using hordes of underpaid migrant workers working backbreaking 80-hour weeks (many of them children), ship them across the country in smoke-belching metal contraptions that burn millions-of-years-old dinosaur carcasses, then you too are a consumer whore just like the rest of us evil goateed meat-eaters.
If you are using LDAP as your addressbook, ldap-abook is a nice interface to add/delete/modify entries. Most email clients are LDAP-aware these days and it's convenient to be able to share an address book between my personal and work email accounts.
I've had to roll my own to do system accounts, however. Make ldapmodify your new best friend, or write an interface of your own - there is a lot of support for Perl or PHP LDAP functions out there. Server-side, I've used OpenLDAP and iPlanet's Directory Server, and I prefer iPlanet. iPlanet has a free non-commercial license option, is significantly faster than OpenLDAP, and has hooks to synchronize with an NT or Active Directory domain so you could do all the user administration in Windows and they would propagate over to your LDAP server.
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How about: It's about as natural as waking up in your mud hut, picking up your handmade reed basket and spending hours foraging for berries, wild leeks and shrooms to feed your family dinner.
If, on the other hand, you rely on gigantic faceless corporations (like the ones that make your "Bunny Luv" baby carrots) to plant countless acres of perfectly aligned rows of monoculture plants using 20 ton tractors, spray them with massive doses of cancer-causing pesticides to prevent the inevitable single bacterium that causes the next Irish potato famine, irrigate them by siphoning off millions of gallons of water from rivers hundreds of miles away and reduce them to relative trickles (like the Colorado River), pump the soil full of chemical fertilizers that cause toxic runoff and poisons water supplies, harvest them using hordes of underpaid migrant workers working backbreaking 80-hour weeks (many of them children), ship them across the country in smoke-belching metal contraptions that burn millions-of-years-old dinosaur carcasses, then you too are a consumer whore just like the rest of us evil goateed meat-eaters.
... you'll still need it. They are stopping their *targeted* ad program, not stopping all ads altogether.
Softerra's LDAP Administrator is pretty good, and they have a freeware version called LDAP Browser. The LDAP Browser/Editor is nice also.
If you are using LDAP as your addressbook, ldap-abook is a nice interface to add/delete/modify entries. Most email clients are LDAP-aware these days and it's convenient to be able to share an address book between my personal and work email accounts.
I've had to roll my own to do system accounts, however. Make ldapmodify your new best friend, or write an interface of your own - there is a lot of support for Perl or PHP LDAP functions out there. Server-side, I've used OpenLDAP and iPlanet's Directory Server, and I prefer iPlanet. iPlanet has a free non-commercial license option, is significantly faster than OpenLDAP, and has hooks to synchronize with an NT or Active Directory domain so you could do all the user administration in Windows and they would propagate over to your LDAP server.
Other fun things you can do with LDAP are:
Handle Unix authentication through pam_ldap
Hook into NIS with the NIS/LDAP gateway
Authenticate through apache with mod_auth_ldap or auth_ldap or Netegrity
Centralize your smtp routing data in LDAP for sendmail
Good luck.
Doh! Jar Jar is there! Or at least a Gungan is, check 19 seconds into the movie, right before Queen Amidala says "Annie?" It's on the far left. *sigh*