LDAP support sucks big time

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

http://samba.org/cvs.html.  obtain and use latest cvs.

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Piet Ruyssinck wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just subscribed to this mailing list primarily as a means to vent my
> frustration regarding the so called LDAP support in the samba-2.0.4b
> source tree.  This 'code' is a big joke, full of syntax errors even.
> It is completely unuseable and had better been removed from the
> distribution.
> 
> Since I badly need LDAP support, the only thing I can do is rewrite the
> code myself.  I was wondering if the 'API' by which the 'modules' in
> samba-2.0.4b/source/passdb are plugged into the rest of the code is a
> static one or whether it is still being changed from release to release
> ?  It would be nice to know that I don't have to revise my code with
> every new release of Samba.  And while I'm on the topic, there wouldn't
> happen to be a document available describing this API, would it ?
> 
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> 

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