Samba 4 Deployment Guide
Matthieu Patou
mat at samba.org
Mon Jun 20 11:45:07 MDT 2011
On 20/06/2011 18:48, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
> On 20/06/11 14:21, Michael Wood wrote:
>> On 20 June 2011 12:44, Matthieu Patou<mat at samba.org> wrote:
>>> On 20/06/2011 12:26, Erik Dalén wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 22:40, Michael Wood<esiotrot at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Just one small comment:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19 June 2011 16:58, Dave Craft<wimberosa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Use of pre-existing LDAP databases with Samba 4
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe this is no longer supported:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2011-April/077042.html
>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php?title=Samba4%2FLDAP_Backend&diff=5817&oldid=5816
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be good however with a guide to migrating from something like
>>>> a OpenLDAP+Heimdal or MIT KDC to Samba4 and keep as much data as
>>>> possible.
>>>
>>> There is something called myldap-pub.py, it needs some polish before
>>> being
>>> integrated.
>>> Patches are welcomed !
>>
>> Is it in a public repository somewhere?
>>
>> From my point of view it seems the main thing it needs is a new name.
>> Is there anything else stopping it from being added to the Samba
>> repository? (Yes, I know it needs work, but so do many other things.)
>>
>
> Hi all,
> This is a first stab at clean-up of myldap-pub script:
> Quoting Andrew:
>
> "... To do that, we do need to clean it up a little. For example,
> import the
> constants like ACB_ etc from samba.dcerpc.samr, and the others from
> samba.dsdb.
>
> I would also like the dump() function removed (particularly given it is
> copied in, and just used in commented out code)."
>
> Hopefully all of the above should be now done - do let me know if that
> is the case :)
>
I would add: no commented code, more documentation in the python doc format.
Also try to split classes from the script itself a good example is the
provision script.
Matthieu.
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Matthieu Patou
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