All, devels, I would like to put in a request the those working on Samba 4 - at our company, we already have a significant investment in Samba 3 and OpenLDAP - LDAP is our primary authentication backend, controls access and configuration of our email infrastructure, and we have written many scripts and web applications that use OpenLDAP, not least of which is an automated user account request (by HR) approval and creation system (by IT). We have even applied for our own unique OID to add our own schemas to the LDAP namespace. It would be rather frustrating if we were to have to give this up to support the many wonderful things that Samba 4 will bring, most important of which for us would be fully integrated Kerberos and Group Policy objects. I have seen on the roadmap that it is being considered to provide support for external LDAP servers in 4; I'd urge that it is an absolute necessity, not only for OpenLDAP users, but for those using products from Novell, Sun, Netscape etc in a current production environment. I also realise there is another approach, ie that of using delegation to other LDAP servers, but I'd love to know what the current state of thinking is for v4. Cheers Alex
Andrew Bartlett
2007-May-16 04:45 UTC
[Samba] Samba 4 and OpenLDAP (and other LDAP servers)
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:20 +0100, Alex Crow wrote:> All, devels,Can you please repost this to samba-technical? I almost missed this mail entirely.> > I also realise there is another approach, ie that of using delegation to > other LDAP servers, but I'd love to know what the current state of > thinking is for v4.In the meantime, have a look at the wiki: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/LDAP_Backend Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20070516/6f65c6b0/attachment.bin