Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Glen Turner wrote:

> It took me as long to set up consistent authentication between
> Samba, NFS and Apache as to do everything else.  Your mileage
> may vary depending what mechanism you use for authentication.

This is the main advantage of the desktop solutions.  The search engine 
indexes what you have access to, nothing more.  With a centralised 
solution, you essentially have to overlay your authentication and 
permissions system(s) over the top of the search engine, and give the 
search engine access to everything.  Or only allow it to index stuff 
that everyone has access to.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
www.rumble.net

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