Using s3's winbind into s4

[Sassy Natan]

Jeremy,

Is there any date for the Samba Directory Service "official" release?


Sassy
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

>  On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:51:29AM +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > today I discovered that libnss_winbind has some problem with s4's
> > winbind, namely getent passwd didn't return users of the domain, getent
> > group neither. A closer look at the code allow to understand that for
> > the password entries the problems lies in the fact that we do not handle
> > the case more_entries and for the group well it seems that we just have
> > the skeleton for the calls.
> > I talked with kai and he seems not very enclined to work more on s4's
> > winbind as he feels now OK with s3's winbind code and he suggested that
> > s4 should use this code as well.
> >
> > The questions are:
> >
> > * is it in the vision for s4 ?
> > * if so how should it be ? a separated process (a la samba3), a
> > separated thread ?
> > * how to include this in the current build system ?
>
> The current plan is to use the current S3 winbindd code as the
> authentication service in the "official" S4 release, renamed
> as "Samba Directory Service".
>
> I'm happy to help add any fixes, changes, merge work to make
> this happen - just open bugs against it an we'll get to them.
>
> Jeremy.
>