CVS update: samba/source/include

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Jan 8 12:18:23 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:53:41AM +0000, Rafal Szczesniak wrote:

> > I think it's not only for an interim stage. Why not leave tdbsam at that? I've
> > used the same procedure for the group mapping stuff in pdb.
> 
> Because when trust passwords are stored in SAM, it's easier to handle SAM
> replication either when Samba acts as NT-compatible BDC or Samba BDC. The
> former would use pdb calls to replicate passwords and the latter could
> enable backend-specific replication e.g. ldap when it is your favour.

pdb_ldap is the whole reason for this stuff. tdbsam is not easily replicable
currently, although it could be made to be. My path would really be to get an
easy pdb passthrough frontend to the secrets.tdb and then concentrate on
pdb_ldap and the favourite sql backend of your choice :-)

Volker


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