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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 23:22:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 15:58:17 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> Give them an idea and programmers are likely to go off into the wild
> blue yonder. “I wonder what would happen if we used AI for this
> problem?” or whatever the programmer’s favorite technology of the month
> is.

My “wild blue yonder” was putting in an LDAP server for a client earlier 
this year.

He’s used to editing /etc/passwd and friends, would you believe. So I
wanted to keep the data in those files, but make it available via LDAP
for authentication use on another server. I couldn’t find any existing
way to do that easily, so I created my own
<https://bitbucket.org/ldo17/serve_passwd/>.