Should we keep the Samba4 LDAP backend?

[Oliver Liebel]

Short: Yes.
 From my long term experience there are many large installations in big 
size companys
worldwide, that make extensive use of OpenLDAP as a standard LDAP, 
mostly with coexisting W2KX-ADS.
What they all need is an S4 with an (RFC) standard LDAP-backend, or more 
exactly,
they need an customizable, RFC-compatible LDAP-Server with 
ADS-Capabilities,
not only a Replacement for W2K8.



Am 01.04.2011 14:54, schrieb Nadezhda Ivanova:
> +1. It is very difficult to support and getting more difficult as we improve
> the DS implementation. If there aren't any use cases for it, we should not
> support it.
>
> Regards,
> Nadya
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jelmer Vernooij<jelmer at samba.org>  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:29 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> My proposal, if accepted, would be simply to remove the wiki pages and
>>> the ability to build the ldap-backend with provision (perhaps leaving an
>>> option for the test scripts).
>>>
>>> When we later need to make some change that is directly incompatible
>>> with the LDAP backend, then we can easily decide to do that later,
>>> knowing it is no longer a goal.
>>>
>>> What do folks think?
>> +1. It may still be nice to pursue in the future, but let's not have it
>> hold us up for now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jelmer
>>
>