a plan for ADS, LDAP and ldb

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Sun Apr 18 20:11:19 GMT 2004


On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 00:37, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> This is a rough idea of what I am currently thinking of regarding
> LDAP, ldb and ADS in Samba4. 

>  - write a OpenLDAP backend that uses ldb. This fits with all the
>    other backends OpenLDAP has, except this will be a _much_ simpler
>    backend as ldb already uses LDAP syntax, and has indexes etc

> PS: Any volunteers to write the OpenLDAP ldb backend?


Ok, I've looked into this one.
It seem doable without too much pain.
But one thing stopped me early. It seem that ldb is case sensitive on
searches, while ldap is case insensitive. Is that fixable?
Can we have a case insensitive ldb ?

Simo.
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