[proof of concept] libwbclient.so

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Simo,

> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:21 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>> This still makes no sense to me.   Winbind is the LSA service
>> of Unix.  Your FreeIPA server should be built upon system
>> services.  Write your own daemon, link against libwbclient,
>> Write backends for your daemon and do whatever you want.
> 
> My service would do pretty much the same job as winbind, 
> that's why I see them very affine.

Your service may implement a similar features but
it does not appear to be a replacement for Winbind.
So I don't see any need to continue an abstract
discussion.  Looks to me that FreeIPA is doing providing
a different service.  You only want to piggy back off
of Winbind's infrastructure.

> Perhaps by mechanism you mean something different from 
> what I mean.

Frequently the discussion of policy vs. mechanism is used to
discuss device drivers in the kernel.  But the same applies
to Code Reuse as mentioned here:

http://g.oswego.edu/dl/WISR93WG/WISR93WG/node13.html#SECTION000310000000000000000






cheers, jerry
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