Meaning of 'idmap backend' ?

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:14, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 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.

Yes I know, but remember that most machines do not use ldap, and many
don't want to, that's why I keep on with tdbsam.

Simo.

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