SYSKEY, TNG freeze, 2.0.x->TNG merge and other thoughts

[Charles N. Owens]

Is there any update available as to when Luke Howard's
SAM-via-LDAP-with-win2k-schema will make into the codebase (either TNG or
TNG-post-merge) ?  Getting a somewhat finalized schema in place seems to me
to be a critical milestone for obvious reasons.  I need to roll out some more
implementations and would much prefer to use the new schema (as would
everyone I'm sure ;-).

Charles

Nicolas Williams wrote:

> Gratouitous advice follows.
>
>  - SYSKEY
>
>    I'm now for it as Luke's LDAP/NIS/other name services argument is a
>    winning one. The /etc/shadow approach should still be supported and
>    used where no such cleartext protocols are in use.
>
>    The question now should be one of scheduling/prioritizing. SYSKEY is
>    not needed urgently to allow TNG to make progress, unless Luke Howard
>    thinks otherwise (he's doing the SAM-via-LDAP-with-win2k-schema work).
>
>  - TNG code freeze
>
>    Don't do it yet; wait a few more weeks. So much progress is taking
>    place that it seems worthwhile to wait a bit longer.
>
>  - 2.0.x->TNG merge
>
>    This should be easy, actually: take smbd code from 2.0.x as is, drop
>    all the MSRPC code save for the loopback to MSRPC daemons code.
>
>    That's it.
>
>    TNG seems to be much further ahead on the MSRPC issues, which means
>    there's no merge to do from 2.0.x there.
>
>    Same thing with utilities such as rpcclient, though smbclient and
>    nmblookup might be best taken from 2.0.x.
>
> I think it's safe to say that TNG is so jam-packed with good ideas that
> it will become the next Samba. But then, that's just a view from the
> sidelines... others may differ on that...
>
> Nico
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