LDAP installed by default?

Just a question.. why don't distros ship with LDAP installed and
configured instead of managing users from the /etc/passwd file? LDAP
seems so much superior.

Are there any distros that do this?

On 2005-12-14, Cyphos <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Just a question.. why don't distros ship with LDAP installed and
> configured instead of managing users from the /etc/passwd file? LDAP
> seems so much superior.

You *can* manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file with a
dumb editor and a minimal distro-on-a-floppy when your machine goes
horky-dorky and doesn't recognize anymore your root password, you
can't do the same with Ldap.

Davide

--
Why would people waste their time developing viruses for Microsoft
products when Microsoft does such a good job itself of adding in bugs
which crash your system?
-- From a Slashdot.org post

That option doesn't seem very secure.

Cyphos wrote:
> That option doesn't seem very secure.
>

To break that option (traditional /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files, which
can be edited with a text editor after booting from a rescue disk), one
needs physical access to the system. If you give me physical access to
your system, it doesn't particularly matter what form of authentication
you use - the system can still be trivially broken.

btw, you should include the context of what you're replying to. It
makes following multiple posts much easier.

Doug

Cyphos wrote:
> That option doesn't seem very secure.
>

Nothing is very secure if you have access to the physical machine.