LDAP support needs ON/OFF switch in smb.conf!

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Sun Jan 30 01:23:32 GMT 2000


hmm, interesting.  use dlopen() modules for authentication...

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jim Morris wrote:

> One would think that it would be a "good idea" to make the use of LDAP
> configurable via smb.conf.  I.e. we need some sort of "ldap support =
> Yes/No" option, or something along those lines.  That way it would be
> possible to distribute a prebuilt binary for Samba that includes LDAP
> support - and the user can turn it on if they need to use it...

> 
> What do you think?  Is there a good reason it cannot be turned off once
> compiled in?

at the moment, yes!  it's #ifdef'd everything else out!



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