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

[Luke Howard]

Only the nt5ldap passdb stuff is anywhere near complete.

The nt5samrldap stuff is just not done. That's really tricky, and
I need to get some serious time to work on that again, and I'm
busy the next couple of weeks.


-- Luke

>From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org>
>Subject: Re: SYSKEY, TNG freeze, 2.0.x->TNG merge and other thoughts
>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:37:55 +1100
>
>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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>>   Charles N. Owens                               Email: owensc at enc.edu
>>                                             http://www.enc.edu/~owensc
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><a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
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> ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
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