Proposals for idmap backend redesign [was Re: svn commit: samba r16822 - in trunk/source/include: .]

[simo]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:30 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
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> > Sound right to me. Correct separation of mechanism and policy.
> > 
> >> The cache can be shared by smbd and winbindd thus removing
> >> the sid to id cache in lookup_sid.c.  The persistent backend
> >> and hence uid/gid allocation is only provided by winbindd.
> > 
> > Yes - and separate out the request for an id mapping and
> > the allocation of a new one. Push that up into the caller
> > to make that decsision.
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> ok.  I think we'll all clear on what needs to be done.
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> >> Sound reasonable?  I will volunteer to do the initial
> >> redesign work if everyone agrees.
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> > Sounds fine to me. Thanks,
> 
> Depending on which one of us gets some free time first :-)

I can volunteer to work on this if you are ok and Jeremy promises to not
jump in when I am 98% done :-)

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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