[PATCH] TSE/munged dial : bugfix !

Simo idra at samba.org
Sun Nov 9 09:51:49 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:02, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Why is the 'samba internal data structure' base64 encoded?  Sure, TDBSAM
> might like it that way, but why keep it in base64 for all users?  For
> LDAP, we will probably find that native LDAP binary encoding makes more
> sense (or at least follows conventions).

base64 encoding enabled us to not change our internal structures, as the
base64 encoded blob is stored in the char * string of munged_dial.

as this is nearly the same thing win TSE does, after all I see no much
problems letting it be that way, just treat it as a string.

Simo.

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