passdb TODO list

[Toomas Soome]

I cave an question regarding to pdb_ interface.

in 2.2 pdb_nisplus code I translated some strings from dos to unix and
vice-versa. this translation helped to manage information correctly from
windows side and from unix side.

now unix_to_dos and dos_to_unix calls are gone in 3.0, what should I do?
is this translation needed at all in 3.0?

toomas

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> I figured I might just jot down some ideas for the future of the passdb
> subsystem, as well as some of the more immediate todo items:
> 
> Actually use the 'unload' passdb code.  Currently we don't ever shut
> down the passdb, execpt on error.  We are going to need to do this kind
> of stuff if we are to make pdb_xml work (for example).
> 
> Also, we need to get interface versioning going:  We have just changed
> the interface, but we didn't tell anybody :-)  (SID stuff).
> 
> I would like to get pdb_xml into Samba at some stage.  What do people
> think of the idea?  (Its a passdb that exports to XML in order to allow
> backups/hand updates pdb backends, tdbsam in particular.)  I've not
> looked at it much, but it does require the basic stuff like new
> configure magic (to detect the XML lib etc).
> 
> http://people.nl.linux.org/~jelmer/downloads/
> 
> I'm sure there is more, so I'll probably add to this later.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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