[PATCH] New external idmap module

[simo]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:59 -0400, simo wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:59 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:54:07PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > > An idea was to make something like this:
> > > idmap_extetrnal <--unix-socket--> local idmap daemon <--secure tcp
> > > protocol--> central idmap daemon
> > 
> > What is the advantage to go via the local unix domain
> > socket?
> 
> 1: remove the overhead of signing and protocol shacking
> 2: be able to survive an interruption of communication with the remote
> server

Replying to myself, mostly 1. tough, because 2. can be done using the
secure protocol against localhost.

Simo.

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