Still worth keeping cn=rootdse and cn=templates?

simo idra at samba.org
Tue Oct 30 06:19:14 GMT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:24 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:03 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > As I move on to more strict schema checks, the cn=rootdse and
> > cn=templates entries in the Samdb are becoming increasingly painful.
> > This is because they contain attributes not present in the schema, and
> > don't have an objectClass.
> > 
> > I'm wondering, should we move these to a different database, or somehow
> > ignored by the module chain?
> > 
> > For the rootdse case, it would be possible to rename cn=rootdse to
> > @ROOTDSE, but what should we do with cn=templates?
> 
> This patch implements the move to @ROOTDSE for that half of the problem.

What do you return as DN?

If I read the patch right (but it is late) you are returnig @ROOTDSE not
cn=rootdse 

Simo.

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