[PATCH] New external idmap module
simo
idra at samba.org
Tue May 30 22:33:05 GMT 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 00:31 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:19:41PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > In some cases the remote map may not have a mapping for a specific SID,
> > in that case the script would be hit really too often, because we do not
> > have a negative caching.
>
> And your daemon is being hit less? True, it's a TCP
> connection but that will still be costly if it comes from
> many clients.
My daeomn is not hit more than it is idmap_ldap or idmap_ad when you use
it in the recommended way (which is to define it as remote and use the
idmap_tdb as a cache). The ability to act as a local cache is just an
*OPTION* to be used at your own risk.
> > No it is not, as smbd has it's own local in memory cache for speed
> > purposes.
>
> Not arguing here. I do see the idmap as speed sensitive.
And forking out a script would do better in this regard?
please...
Simo.
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Simo Sorce
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