This is intended to become a simple method to access authentication and
user/group data over a network.  The following assumptions have been made:

* User data and information must be accessible over a network.

* The system must be easily manageable, by pretty untrained users.

* There is one central server, without significant resources.  Hence the
	server process must be lightweight.

* Network security is not of primary importance.

* Clients must be able to obtain information on an ad-hoc basis (no
	pre-authentication required).

* Write access does not need to be available over the network.

* It must be robust.

The existing systems I've evaluated are:

* Flat files over NFS
Not robust, and is a management pain.

* NIS
'Crawling Horror' does not describe the management of this.

* LDAP
They use some meaning of 'Lightweight' with which I am not familiar.

If there's anything out there which does fulfill all of my requirements,
feel free to tell me - I'll dump this project if something else will do the
job.

Having said that 'Network Security is of primary importance', I am keen to
secure this as much as possible.  If anyone wants to bolt SSL onto this, I'm
happy to include it, but it's not something I've got the time to spend on it
myself at present.



