Question to external PASSDB API users

Alexander Bokovoy ab at samba.org
Thu May 16 05:03:22 MDT 2013


Hi,


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm looking around to understand if there are any PASSDB API users outside
> Samba and FreeIPA projects.
>
> PASSDB API is a Samba API for modules in smbd to provide users/groups
> storage backends. Inside Samba there are smbpasswd, ldapsam, and tdbsam.
> Samba AD DC implements a glue module called pdb_samba_dsdb. There is
> relatively limited pdb_wbc_sam for Winbind-like external providers. FreeIPA
> implements an extension to ldapsam called ipasam.
>
> Are there any other PASSDB modules maintained outside Samba source tree
> that we don't know about?
>
> There are few updates to PASSDB API in git master tree that I'd like to
> get promoted to 4.0.x to simplify their maintenance and if there are no
> other out-of-tree PASSDB modules, we can do the update since rebuilding
> Samba will automatically get internal modules rebuilt.
>
> I've got no responses both on the list and privately so I propose to go
ahead and update 4.0.

Jeremy, Michael, please support bug 9779.
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy


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