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From: colinj@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Colin Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: X.500/LDAP on FreeBSD
Date: 13 Oct 1996 20:06:36 GMT
Organization: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals
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Message-ID: <53ri4c$496@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Reply-To: Colin E. Johnson <colinj@unm.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu
My thoughts on this were triggered when I saw mention of long
usernames/loginids in another thread.
I'm wondering if anyone, in particular any ISPs, are running
X.500 or the UMich LDAP servers? Properly set up this would allow
users to get mail at things like firstname.lastname@isp.net and such
addresses.
This isn't the only use for X.500/LDAP but it certainly would
make the need for extra-long loginids a thing of the past.
--
"As Jun [Murai] explains it, `I can go to the bar and drink beer. I go
to a phone and ping my routers, and if they are still working, I go
back and drink more beer.'" Carl Malamud _Exploring_the_Internet_
Colin Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/