Re: Major new ubiqx release

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@regent.push.net)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:28:34 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:28:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@regent.push.net>
To:	"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@NTS.Umn.EDU>
Subject: Re: Major new ubiqx release
In-Reply-To: <199804202256.RAA02155@unet.unet.umn.edu>

> Okay, here we have a *BIG* question. Do we (Samba team & assoc.
> developers) commit to LDAP as our internal database access scheme (for
> config, WINS, passwords, etc.), or do we consider a lower level system and
> put LDAP on top of it? BIG issue!

>
> * do we require that there be an LDAP server available with which to
> communicate?

give people the option to use an LDAP server, then they will have to have
one somewhere.

> * do we write our own LDAP service attached to Samba (code is available)
> and, if so, will it conflict with another LDAP service on the same
> machine?

only if we have time should we provide an LDAP server. like with swat, it
can be run instead of an existing http server.

> * do we avoid all of these problems and write something else which can,
> if desired, talk to an LDAP server?

there's some client-side code which we can drop in (isn't there?) so
that's solved, and that's a different issue from server-side (suggestions
above).