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

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Tue Feb 8 21:35:09 GMT 2000


On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Charles N. Owens wrote:

> 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

./configure --with-nt5pdap

or:

./configure --with-nt5pdap --with-sam-pwd=nt5ldap

it's experimental and subject to change.

> 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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<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
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