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On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:22 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Full_Name: Andrew Bartlett > > Version: CVS HEAD > > OS: Fedora 9 > > URL: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/200803/msg00101.h= tml > > Submission from: (NULL) (59.167.251.137) > > > > > > For Samba4, I need a few things, detailed in the attached URL. >=20 > The above message thread had some unanswered questions. We may need to ha= ve=20 > each point listed out again. >=20 > > This ITS is for internal transactions and validation - the ability to h= ave a > > openldap overlay roll back all the changes so far, because a preconditi= on is not > > met. >=20 > I think this one is understood, OK. Just a matter of getting the time to = do it. >=20 > > I need the memberOf and refint modules to ensure that no dangling links= ever > > exist, even over subtree renames and invalid modifies, and that a trans= action > > ensures this is always the case. >=20 > I think the proper use of memberOf still needs to be addressed. E.g., it'= s=20 > generally a bad idea to search for (memberOf=3Dfoo) when you can simply=20 > enumerate the members inside the "foo" entry. If you give us precise exam= ples=20 > of the searches and modifications that you'll be using, we may be able to= =20 > narrow the scope of this work. I'll be passing on any search that a windows client makes, and trying to return the same result a windows server would return. Bad ideas still have to be implemented in my world :-( > > This needs to occur even between databases on the server, but I won't a= sk that > > it occur outside the known trees. >=20 > It's already possible for operations in one database to reference entries= in a=20 > different database, so that aspect of validation should be fine. However,= as=20 > noted before, "validation" is generally bogus to begin with. In particula= r,=20 > how do you create entries with circular references? If you disallow refer= ences=20 > to nonexistent entries, you can't set the references until after all of t= he=20 > entries have been created. This means that you cannot backup a database t= hat=20 > has these references and then later reload it in a single pass. An interesting point, but I need to match the windows runtime behaviour.=20 Andrew Bartlett --=20 Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. --=-I6d9E5fOqbwKcJhhvz+z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBIPLXqz4A8Wyi0NrsRArp6AJ9OaJP8Cu4MdO69n1k1S8vlBjtPOACdHvDh t0XbDQzXaJya2LR/bhl1RlQ= =/FnH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-I6d9E5fOqbwKcJhhvz+z--
