LDAP status

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Matt Chapman wrote:

> > Are you integrating LDAP with aliasdb, groupdb, and passgrp as well as passdb?
> 
> Yes.

good.
 
> > What schema are you using? Is there any sense in trying to use a common schema
> > between the NIS stuff and LDAP? What I'm thinking of is something like the
> > RFC2307.
> 
> Currently my objectclasses are based roughly on the Samba/NT structures, i.e.
> not conforming to any standard.
> 
> Once I have that working correctly it would be trivial to change the attribute
> names and types to correspond to something standard.
> 
> Would the preference be for NIS (i.e. RFC2307) or Active Directory? Both (i.e.
> ldap schema = nis / ad) ? Neither? Suggestions?

i'm inclined to say... unix is more important, so once you have nt (not
samba :-) structures working, go for rfc2307.  then we could have a
compile-time option to use ms-schema.