Extending LDB for Extended DNs

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:28 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 18:23 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:33 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Great.  I've been working on this hard for the past week or so.  See
> > > http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog for the
> > > current work in progress.
> > > 
> > > I'm currently working on the comprehensive testsuite for DN behaviours,
> > > particularly with the extended DNs.
> > > 
> > > I would appreciate any comments or feedback,
> > 
> > This work has taken far, far longer than I ever expected, but it seems
> > that a SID or a GUID is just as valid as a DN in *every* area where it
> > is used.  As such, a fairly major rework has been required to translate
> > these into a 'normal' DN.
> > 
> > I've not yet got a working 'store the full DN' module working, but I
> > have largely got the input side working, and make test passing (broken
> > again as I test more, but what was there passes).  I've updated my GIT
> > tree again. 
> > 
> > This looks like taking another week to finish, after which I hope to
> > publish another Samba4 alpha. 
> 
> I've updated my git branch again.  I'm almost finished - I just need to
> figure out why subtree renames are no longer updating the linked
> attributes. 
> 
> Next steps are to hook this in to metze's DRS translation layer and to
> hook into OpenLDAP's 'dereference control'.
> 
> Once this is in and tested, we should be in a good position to make the
> long-awaited alpha6 release, which will then, I hope, support Samba3 as
> a member server.

I've now completed the work - it passes 'make test' (albeit without the
LDAP backend).  Is there any objection to me merging the work, as seen
in the branch above?

(And no, I'm not willing to rebase it - sorry.  It would remove a lot of
the context of the changes and make a bisect harder). 

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20081203/cc5d44e7/attachment.bin