group_mapping.ldb and 3.0.25

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:13 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Simo,
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> > ACK,
> > Would you like more and ldb "unifying" module 
> > that replaces tdbsam, ldapsam and group_mapping.ldb,
> > by storing everything in a single module?
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> > I think that's doable without breaking current 
> > ldap setups.
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> I could justifying including ldb in production if we
> gained more benefits from it.  Right now I think we
> take on more work for very little benefit with
> the single group_mapping.tdb file.

But wouldn't the argument then be 'this is too big a change, and I'm
scared about this now'?  I just worry that by putting this off now, it's
never going to happen.  What is wrong with making this baby step, and
using ldb in one subsystem to start with?  Then we can expand it's use
beyond that. 

I certainly agree that it would be great to code the ldap passdb backend
against LDB, and likewise use it for many other services, but why does
that lead you to the conclusion to back out ldb now?  Is it breaking
something?  Is the implementation in group mapping such horrible code
that can't dare to see the light of day, or just fundamentally flawed?  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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