VOTE: proposal to strip out pdb_context and pdb_methods chaining

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:55 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:52:58PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> >> So pass in your ballots please.  +1 or -1.
> > 
> > Hmmm. I should generate some mail aliases to vote more than
> > one +1... ;-)
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> > If you just want to replace the conversion from one to
> > another and not have it accessible for external tools: What
> > about init_buffer_from_sam and base64 it? Nasty, but should
> > do the job for -i -e. Anything more fancy can wait for later
> > I think.
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> The major points brought up on the Samba list are
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> (a) not having a global root account in LDAP
> (b) migrating from one passdb to another
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> The first point is solved by not requiring a root account
> anymore (user privileges) and we already knew the second would
> be an issue.  So far I have two +1 votes here and about 1/2
> dozen responses all of which can be handled reasonably easy.

I rather liked the pdb_context part of the design (particularly due to
migration stuff), but I realise it is not in favour any more.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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