VOTE: proposal to strip out pdb_context and pdb_methods chaining
Jelmer Vernooij
jelmer at samba.org
Sun Feb 12 02:35:09 GMT 2006
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:52:58PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote about 'VOTE: proposal to strip out pdb_context and pdb_methods chaining':
> Time to vote:
>
> I would really like to strip out the pdb_context stuff.
> The idea of chaining passdb backends is nice but overly
> complicated the code and has never really provided any
> practical use. We really one need one SAM. If anyone
> wants to provide an interface similar to the current one,
> they can write a meta-sam that consildates storage from
> mutliple places.
>
> We can export from one passdb to import to another by
> using an intermediate format (LDIF, XML, etc...)
>
> This seems as good a time as any to fix this since we are
> chewing up the user/group formats anyways. I'll post to
> the samba ml and see if anyone is really using the
> chained passdb interface (geeze...I *hope* no one is).
>
> So pass in your ballots please. +1 or -1.
+1. While useful in some cases (I used it to keep my machine accounts
out of MySQL), it really belongs in a seperate plugin.
Cheers,
Jelmer
(apologizing for writing that code in the first place...)
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