Millions of accounts compromised because there is no specialised user database

Re:Millions of accounts compromised because there is no spec... by beagle3 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @04:38PM (#9423388)

Then I'm glad to stand corrected - I suppose I'm horribly out of date from the days they tried other "solutions". I'm less surprised about AT&T and Verizon, more surprised about Google.

My own personal experience with LDAP in general (and some with OpenLDAP in particular) dates back to 2000 or so -- and at some point I just gave up on the complex and unreliable beast that it was (for whatever reason, BDB would occasionally lock up or get corrupted) - but I know a lot has changed since, LMDB is amazing -- I guess it is time for another look.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Millions of accounts compromised because there is no spec... by hyc_symas on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @07:16PM (#9424181)

OpenLDAP didn't start to become seriously usable until about 2003 (that's when HP dropped SunDS and adopted OpenLDAP for all of their global infrastructure). A lot of work went into it in the 2001-2002 timeframe to get it there. Yeah, a lot has changed, you've missed a couple generations of advancements. BDB's complexity was definitely a pain, but that's all in the past.

[ Parent | on HN ]