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		samstave on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac Yep. The INI files were the original ways to store config info... The registry was the next step. What would be great is an online serve for such - a machine gets booted and it asks for your config unam UUID etc - and then just slurps your snapshot down.

bboreham on March 4, 2021 [–]

When I first heard about Active Directory (1998?) I thought it would work a bit like this - a distributed Registry.

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