a plan for ADS, LDAP and ldb

[Gémes Géza]

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Roland Bauerschmidt írta:
| tridge at samba.org wrote:
|
|> - write a OpenLDAP backend that uses ldb. This fits with all the
|>   other backends OpenLDAP has, except this will be a _much_ simpler
|>   backend as ldb already uses LDAP syntax, and has indexes etc
|>
|> - a Samba4 ADS DC would internally talk straight to the ldb, but
|>   would present the ldb contents to LDAP for remote clients via the
|>   OpenLDAP backend
|
|
| Would that still allow for the combination of Samba and non-Samba
| information in the same LDAP directory? I think being able to do that is
| a great feature. That way, you can have Samba, mail routing and all
| other sort of information in one place. I'm sorry if I got you wrong,
| that didn't seem clear to me in your proposal.
|
| Roland

Besides that there is another question:
Will ldb be able to use another datasources? Eg ldb acting as a frontend
to an SQL based database?
______________
|             |
|     ldb     |
|             |
|_____________|
~       |
~       |
~       |
~       |
~       |
_______Ç______
|     SQL     |
|     or      |
|    other    |
|__datastore__|

It will make sense for many organizations having some SQL based user
accounting in place.

Thanks,

Geza
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