Major new ubiqx release

[Jeremy Allison]

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> Okay, here we have a *BIG* question.  Do we (Samba team & assoc.
> developers) commit to LDAP as our internal database access scheme (for
> config, WINS, passwords, etc.), or do we consider a lower level system and
> put LDAP on top of it?  BIG issue!
> 

Well, I've recently implemented a UNIX style of password
interface (getsmbpwnam() etc.) through which all access
to the underlying password database is now funnelled in
the main branch code.

So long as we stick with these interafaces, we can
build whatever we want as the backend - and even have 
them plugged in. I would say not to commit to an
LDAP storage yet, until we know what the best
method will be (we don't even have a gdbm backend
yet - let's walk before we run :-).

The main thing we have to decide is what schema gets
mapped into the 'struct smb_passwd' that is returned
by these functions. It needs to be a superset of all
the desired schema - with reasonable defaults returned
for systems that do not store all the data (the current
smbpasswd file for instance).

Cheers,

Jeremy.

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