Hi Bjoern, On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:21, Bjoern Scheuermann wrote: > think I have to reply to my own mail, if nobody else does... :-) Sorry, I think I didn't notice it the first time...
> > are there any plans to add some support for storing not only user > > information, but also group mappings in the MySQL passdb backend? Or are > > there problems I'm not aware of why this cannot be done? After I finish the registry library work, this is one of the things I'm going to look at next. Could take a few months though... > I'd maybe be willing to try doing this on my own, if sombeody could give me > some hints on how to start. Is it just the implementation of the methods for > storing and retrieving the group mappings which I've found in the LDAP > backend code? Or is there anything more to do? Yep, that's all. > > And - by the way - is there any reason why pdb_mysql should not (yet) be > > used in larger installations (several hundert clients), or why several > > servers shouldn't share one common database? Are there any experiences > > regarding such installations, or are any problems already known? > Nobody using it with more than a few users/clients? > What a pitty... There are a couple of large installations out there. It's just that LDAP is more commonly used for user databases. Other reasons might be: - libnss_mysql doesn't work very well (at least, last time I tried it) - user databases are most of the time read-only operations, something LDAP is optimized for - Easier extension of fields stored for users - it's easy to add a schema, while in MySQL you would have to modify your table. Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij http://samba.org/~jelmer/ http://samba.vernstok.nl/ Last CVS commit: Sat Jan 10 22:05:38 2004 (24d 18h 20m ago) Bugs in bugzilla: 18 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
