[Review Request] libwbclient-sssd

[Sumit Bose]

Hi,

I'm looking for review and comments on my patches in
http://fedorapeople.org/cgit/sbose/public_git/samba.git/log/ .

They add a replacement for libwbclient which talks to SSSD
(https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/) instead of winbindd. One of the
use-cases for this library is to run Samba on FreeIPA clients where the
FreeIPA domain already has a trust relationship to an AD forest.

Currently not all calls are implemented but it already works quite well.
I would prefer to maintain this library in the Samba source tree
instead e.g. in the SSSD tree. We already have a id-mapping plugin for
cifs-utils in the SSSD tree but here the plugin interface is very small
and I think chances are low that it will change any time soon.
libwbclient on the other hand is more complex and contains quite some
calls which are independent of the backend (e.g. memory management and
conversion utilities). I tired to extract this common code in some of
the patches so that it can be used by both libraries.

Please let me know if you think that those patches can be included in
the samba tree (and what I have to fix/change to make it happen) or if
you think it would be better to maintain it externally?

Btw, I will be available for discussion next week on SambaXP.

Thank you for your help.

bye,
Sumit