Solving: samba registry with client programs

[Stef Walter]

On 04/17/2012 10:14 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:08:35PM -0400, simo wrote:
>> Stef, FWIW, you do not need to code up a new daemon, running smbd would
>> suffice as it provides access to the registry RPC enpoint over NCACN_NP
>> or the new NCALRPC. But you would need to write some client logic to do
>> that and you would require smbd running.
> 
> We've also had repeated requests for an lgpl library to
> access samba's registry. Doing it via some form of RPC would
> IMHO be the right way to do it. Simo is right, smbd already
> supports registry access. It should be simple to add a
> unix-domain socket only mode for smbd, just to access the
> registry. The major piece that's missing is the NDR support
> library required to do the RPC marshalling. That's only
> available as GPL code.

Until someone has time to implement that, attached is a patch which
implements the registry mirroring suggested.

It mirrors the global settings of the smbconf registry to a file next to
registry.tdb called registry-mirror.conf. This is seamlessly used when
running from an smbclient that is not root.

What do you think?

Stef
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