ODBC / Postgresql password backend ?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Jul 2 16:10:35 GMT 2003


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:13:43AM -0700, Vance Lankhaar wrote about 'Re: ODBC / Postgresql password backend ?':
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 04:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:43:49PM +0200, Olaf Fr?czyk wrote about 'ODBC / Postgresql password backend ?':
> > > I just have read some documentation about 3.0.
> > > There is written about support of MySQL backend.
> > > We use Postgreql for other purposes. I don't want to install another
> > > database just for samba authentication.
> > > Are you going to support Postgresql as authentication backend?
> > > May be you could do ODBC backend, so other database backends could work
> > > also?
> > There is currently nobody working on a PostGreSQL backend, but of
> > course you are encouraged to write a pdb_postgresql or pdb_odbc module. If you 
> > need help, please let me know.

> There was someone in #samba on Freenode who was talking about writing
> one, but I don't think (s)he got started. I know there have been a few
> people who came by #samba there were interested in such a thing.
I've talked/mailed with several people who were interested in writing such a
module, but afaik none of them actually got something finished.

	Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij                                      <jelmer at samba.org>
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