On Thursday, November 4, 2010 21:32 CET, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: 
 
quoted text
> > On second thought, I should answer with a little less snark, though I
> > think this one attribute sums it up pretty well.
> > 
> > First, some committee sat around and tried to come up with all the
> > things needed to describe a person, like license plates and pager
> > numbers and who your secretary is.  It's like it's custom built for
> > handling the personnel records of IBM management.  They made all this
> > nonsense optional thankfully, but who's to say there aren't other
> > attributes you need to store in your organization?  Now you're off
> > making your own schema.  Adios interop!
> > 
> > Second, the file formats seem purpose designed to be incomprehensible.
> > 
> > Third, just doing something as simple as putting a single user record
> > into the db using ldapadd involved an insane amount of typing of magic
> > incantations.  This is not entirely the tool's fault, there's just so
> > much "stuff" involved it bubbles up to the user whether they like it
> > or not.
> > 
> > On the whole, "infinite flexibility" is pretty much synonymous with
> > "infinite complexity".
> 
> not enough axe murderers.
> 
> note to axe murderers: ietf and other such organizations are purposely
> weak at checking badges at their events, because who would want to go
> to them?  use this to your advangage.  the people attending these
> meetings are generally pretty unfit and move slowly, so you don't need
> a large, long handled axe -- something small will do.
> 
 
 
I like that, and probably worth a fortune cookie, starting with a dedicated cookie file just for theo! 
OK? ;)


cheers,
Sebastian 

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 Makefile
--- Makefile	26 Sep 2003 03:08:44 -0000	1.6
+++ Makefile	5 Nov 2010 07:23:58 -0000
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 #	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 1996/02/29 00:21:16 jtc Exp $
 #	@(#)Makefile	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 
-SRCS=	fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy recipes
+SRCS=	fortunes fortunes2 startrek zippy recipes theo
 BLDS=	fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat \
-	fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat recipes.dat
+	fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat recipes.dat theo.dat
 
 # TO INSTALL THE POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE FORTUNES, UNCOMMENT THE THREE
 # LINES AND COMMENT OUT THE FOURTH LINE.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 	${INSTALL} ${INSTALL_COPY} -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 444 ${BLDS} \
 	    ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/games/fortune
 
-fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat fortunes2-o.dat limerick.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat recipes.dat:
+fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat fortunes2-o.dat limerick.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat recipes.dat theo.dat:
 	${STRFILE} -rs ${.CURDIR}/${.TARGET:R} ${.TARGET}
 
 fortunes-o.dat: fortunes-o
Index: theo
===================================================================
RCS file: theo
diff -N theo
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ theo	5 Nov 2010 07:23:58 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+note to axe murderers: ietf and other such organizations are purposely
+weak at checking badges at their events, because who would want to go
+to them?  use this to your advangage.  the people attending these
+meetings are generally pretty unfit and move slowly, so you don't need
+a large, long handled axe -- something small will do.
+
+Theo de Raadt on tech@ answering the thread: document ldapd schema files
+