Some remarks on Samba4 with OpenLDAP backend

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Mar 22 08:05:46 GMT 2009


On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 01:53 +1100, Luke Howard wrote:
> > For example, Samba maintains the 'name' attribute in OpenLDAP manually
> > (mapping it to Samba4RDN).  If the backend were administered directly,
> > nothing would keep 'name' in sync with the RDN.
> 
> Can't you just synthesise this from the RDN in a computed attribute  
> plugin?

Well, we have to be able to search on it - can you do that on a computed
attribute plugin?  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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