[PATCHES] Rationalizing and unifing Schannel

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher schrieb:
> Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
>> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:53 -0500, simo wrote:
>>> I have been working on a patchset to enhance the schannel interface and
>>> also to make it possible to share this code between S3 and S4 again.
>>>
>>> The first 6 patches shouldn't be controversial.
>>> The last 2 patches remove the use of ldb and goes back to use a tdb for
>>> samba4, the comment on patch 7 explains the rationale.
>>>
>>> Unless there are objections I will push this patches during the week.
>> Except for the comments on ldb performance, which I think don't really
>> apply here (unlike sam.ldb, schannel.ldb does not load modules, and does
>> not have a very high connect rate anyway), this seems like a very
>> reasonable approach.  In particular, it's important to unify subsystems
>> like this, and the temporary nature of this DB lends itself to NDR'ed
>> structures and a single key lookup.  It's nice to be able to see the
>> details of a running server with a simple ldbsearch, but it does not
>> seem to be needed often. 
> 
> As far as I remember the tdb code was even more verbose, by
> NDR_PRINT_DEBUG() at each step in the log files.
> 
> I could also think about using TDB_CLEAR_IF_FIRST, it's just a runtime
> cache. We don't need a tdb_transaction for each credential step.

In that case we need to pre open the tdb in the parent...

metze

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