todo items, still some are available?

2009-10-24 Thread kalyanasundaram s
All the items in the todo list are up for grabs? I guess some are already
done like the rfc 2891.

-kalyan


Re: todo items, still some are available?

2009-10-24 Thread Howard Chu

kalyanasundaram s wrote:

All the items in the todo list are up for grabs? I guess some are
already done like the rfc 2891.


Yes, it looks like we need to update this list and remove the ones that have 
been completed recently.


There's already a patch for BSD kqueue in the ITS that needs to be reviewed...

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Re: TODO

2008-05-24 Thread Michael Ströder

Howard Chu wrote:
 * canned templates to create LDAP users with POSIX, Samba, and KDC 
attributes fully populated


What does fully populated mean? Are you talking about web2ldap's 
standard mech for LDIF templates?


Then it would be just extending file etc/web2ldap/templates/add_user.ldif

Ciao, Michael.


Re: TODO

2008-05-24 Thread Gavin Henry
quote who=Howard Chu
 Some project ideas that have come out of discussions at this week's Ubuntu
 Developer Summit:
   * canned slapd.conf / config.ldif with simple tree and Samba3 support
   * canned config with Heimdal KDC support
   * canned templates to create LDAP users with POSIX, Samba, and KDC
 attributes fully populated
 * for web2ldap
 * plugin for Linux useradd/userdel

 I think the canned configs are pretty small projects - just write a
 config, do
 some variable substitution on the database suffix etc., and it should be
 ready
 to use. We can provide these in the contrib tree with appropriate READMEs.
 Any
 volunteers?

I'll add these to my list. I can add them to the admin guide appendices in
the placeholders there.

Do we want templates and some kind of QA using shell scripts etc.
Obviously using nothing more than we currently require for a basic build.


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Re: TODO

2008-05-23 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Howard Chu wrote:
 Some project ideas that have come out of discussions at this week's
 Ubuntu Developer Summit:
  * canned slapd.conf / config.ldif with simple tree and Samba3 support
  * canned config with Heimdal KDC support
  * canned templates to create LDAP users with POSIX, Samba, and KDC
 attributes fully populated
* for web2ldap
* plugin for Linux useradd/userdel
 
 I think the canned configs are pretty small projects - just write a
 config, do some variable substitution on the database suffix etc., and
 it should be ready to use. We can provide these in the contrib tree with
 appropriate READMEs. Any volunteers?

I did a script once which asks just a few questions and then setups a
tree with support for several services (dns, sudo, dhcp, heimdal kdc,
samba, etc) and group based ACLs:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/OpenLDAP_DIT

The source is at:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/corporate/cs4/devel/openldap-mandriva-dit/current/

It wouldn't be hard to make it a bit more generic and distribution
agnostic. Would the project be interest in that?



TODO

2008-05-22 Thread Howard Chu
Some project ideas that have come out of discussions at this week's Ubuntu 
Developer Summit:

 * canned slapd.conf / config.ldif with simple tree and Samba3 support
 * canned config with Heimdal KDC support
 * canned templates to create LDAP users with POSIX, Samba, and KDC 
attributes fully populated

   * for web2ldap
   * plugin for Linux useradd/userdel

I think the canned configs are pretty small projects - just write a config, do 
some variable substitution on the database suffix etc., and it should be ready 
to use. We can provide these in the contrib tree with appropriate READMEs. Any 
volunteers?


On a separate topic, I've been slowly rewriting nss-ldapd as a slapd overlay 
(in between technical sessions at the Summit). This will also be showing up in 
contrib soon. With this approach, we can eliminate all the 
libldap/libldap_r/version dependencies that currently plague the usual 
nss-ldap implementation (and nss-ldapd already does that). Plus, we can not 
only have direct NSS mapping into local slapd databases, but with back-ldap, 
pcache, and/or translucent, we can also provide excellent NSS performance from 
a remote LDAP server, as well as locally cached credentials for disconnected 
host operation.


Which reminds me, it would still be a good idea to develop a back-tdb using 
Samba's tdb library, as a lightweight/small footprint/easy to configure 
transactional backend. The last time I checked tdb would only safely support 
up to about 500,000 objects, but for a lot of smaller sites that would be more 
than enough, and the limitation would be worth the simplification of the 
configs/tuning aspects. Again - any volunteers looking for some fun projects?

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