[proof of concept] libwbclient.so

Guenther Deschner gd at samba.org
Thu Aug 30 15:35:48 GMT 2007


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Hi Jerry,

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Volker,
> 
>> One main question for me is: How much of the winbind pipe do
>> we want to expose via an API that we stick to in the future?
>> For example, what about the DC lookup routines that gd has
>> added recently for his krb5 locator plugin? How do we handle
>> changes here?
> 
> My goal is that this library should be the only way
> that smbd communicates with winbindd.  So therefore if a
> fucntion is necessary added smbd, it must be added to the
> library.  I want to remove all compile time static links
> between smbd and winbindd.

For this purpose I fully agree with your approach.

As long as you preserve a way to access the "good" old API for richer
commands like PAM and others.

Guenther

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Guenther Deschner                   GPG-ID: 8EE11688
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