Samba4 LDAP Integration
paul kölle
paul at subsignal.org
Fri Oct 29 17:49:10 GMT 2004
Gémes Géza wrote:
>> Take it more generally. It's not about LDAP but the interfaces Samba4
>> will implement to USE data it will not store by itself (uid/gid?) and
>> the interfaces it will implement to PROVIDE access to data it stores
>> other services might need. Any reasonings, notes, code to look at?
>>
>> thanks
>> Paul
>>
> No, the real point is not to have to move from OpenLDAP based
> Posix+Samba+other attributes to Samba4's LDAP server based Samba
> attributes+Something else (e.g. flat files :-( ). Instead IMHO a Samba4
> LDAP server based central storage would be the best solution to this.
But then you have to write a full fledged LDAP server capable of
replacing OpenLDAP and friends *and* migrate all sort of information to
that db.
> The necessary infrastructural changes could have benefits as well:
No doubt ;)
greetings
Paul
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