[COLUG] shout out to Solaris Gurus

[Jim Wildman]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Rick Troth wrote:

> I'm surprised that you didn't see it as widely accepted.
> Prior to LDAP,  what else was there for distributed reference?
> (eg: /etc/passwd and friends)  Certainly it was dominant in academia,
> though one would conceed that Sun was also common in that world.
>

I've never seen it in a pure AIX or HP shop.  Only places where there
was a high percentage of Sun boxen.  Not that it wouldn't work or wasn't
used.  I just never saw it.  And there really wasn't anything else,
which left the door open for Microsoft to charge through with Active
Directory.

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