> Maarten Vanraes wrote: >> Hey, >> >> a few years back i wrote an overlay module "modtrigger", that executes a >> script on modifications. > > The preferred approach these days is to use slapo-sock. > > fork/exec is still risky on some threading implementations. This is also > why > back-shell is not recommended for general use. > >> Some of the comments i got was that it should really require to work >> with >> the new config structure. >> >> Finally i've done that, but i'm sure it could be improved. >> >> So, i'm kind of asking if someone can review it and give some pointers >> to >> improve. >> >> and next if it's possible to include in the openldap distribution, in >> the >> overlay section or contrib section. > > Thanks for the effort but I don't believe it would be a good idea to > include > this code for the above reasons.
ugh, great... otoh, if back-shell is not recommended, then modtrigger could be there anyway. if the system is properly shielded and limited (eg: cgroups), then the sysadmin could actually use this, no?
