Dealing with Mac OS X and NetInfo Problems?

newkid would like some assistance getting to the core of this issue: "Apple likes to refer to its server software as an industrial-strength server based on Apple's modern OS. However, there are serious flaws in the authentication system (netinfo): I am locked out of four of my remote servers (even root has been disabled, and that is unacceptable), and the instability is well documented here, here and here. I have successfully reinstalled one server and replaced another one with FreeBSD, but I have not decided what to do in the long run. What is your experience? Should I completely forget OS X for my servers and switch to something else? Or should I move to Panther (it uses LDAP instead of NetInfo to control user accounts)? I would like to know about your experience with OS X Server and if your have made the switch to something else." What experiences have you had with NetInfo on your Mac OS X boxes, and do you have any other hints and tips on recovering the NetInfo database in the event that it does develops amnesia?

If only you could mod articles -1 Flamebait

[RalphBNumbers]

This newkid managed to find all of 3 people out of millions of mac users who have had their netinfo database corrupted. All of which were fairly easily repaired, all of which managed to write constructive articles. (and at least one of which explicitly said they thought it was because of a pseudo-brownout while writing to disk, not some flaw in apple's software)

And now newkid claims he's having the same problem on 4 servers at once (of which I'm somewhat dubious), and writes this flamebait article, implying that Apple's OS is horribly flawed.

He then goes on to ask for the info he could have just read out of those 3 pages he linked to as documentation of his "serious flaws"; these problems are very rare, and fairly easily repaired by someone moderately cluefull.