[SAMBA4] Tech preview progress

[Andrew Bartlett]

Another note to let folks now where we are at towards the tech preview:

We now have a simple 'kludge ACLs' module.  As described earlier, this
allows the SYSTEM and Administrators full control of the database, while
others may simply read non-password attributes.

This I expect to be replaced by real ACLs, but it should let us release
a tech preview with a straight face.

Due to the efforts of Steinar H. Gunderson and others, the Debian
package that Jelmer started is now on it's way to the experimental
distribution.  

Blocking the tech preview I see: 
 - SIGTERM handling (metze)
 - ACLs on registry, needs plumbing work (jelmer)
 - Documentation (particularly of user management with ldb)
 - Testing

That is, nothing impossible.  I think we really can get this out before
linux.conf.au.

Sometime after that we will need to seriously look at system integration
issues.  For example, a working Samba4 domain requires a particular DNS
setup (the zone file loaded by provision).  Changing the settings for
other services is a sensitive matter for packaging, but if we are to
ever have a solution that 'just works' we must tackle it somehow.

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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