THanks for the reply. I’m migrating over from an Apple server, so most everything is the same. I was really just worried about the user accounts. On the apple, I had to add users directly to the system which, of course, got me worried that an enterprising person would try to log directly into the machine via a remote desktop session.
With the dav db, I can avoid that, but I wasn’t sure of future repercussions. I’ll check back if I have questions.
As for the other parts, I’ve installed ruby, perl and php as I use all three for day to day operations.
Thanks!