Meaning of 'idmap backend' ?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> The idea is that you should have a control mechanism that make the
> central idmap admin decide if remote servers can add mappings, in that
> case remote servers will be able to push mappings, otherwise a
> set_mapping on client idmap server should not be able to push the
> mapping.

Just a quick note: LDAP very nicely gives you this for free with update
referreals and ACLs. It's a bit tricky to set up, but when you have done
it once it's really straight forward.

Volker

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