Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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/>.