Making more use of LDAP
David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering
David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 23 14:52:43 GMT 2003
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> - We need to store *smb.conf* values in LDAP, where those values
>> must be consistant across all hosts. Things like the 'idmap uid/gid'
>>settings come to mind here.
Tim Potter wrote:
> I'm not sure this is such a good idea. You would have to be very
> careful with caching and so on [...]
Novell LDAP had a feature that would allow the content
of a file to be stored in LDAP, and exported when the
content changed.
A colleague, Dimitre Todorov, wrote a perl program which
read the LDAP comitt log, and whenever it saw an update
of data it was interested in, did a query and wrote out
the data in a specified format. It was to make a non-LDAP-
aware program behave as if it were storing its config in LDAP.
This might make it practical to keep smb.conf data in LDAP.
--dave
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