Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew Bartlett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:06:37PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: The use of multiple backends in passdb has acknowledged issues, and I'm not particularly fussed if you feel it should not ship with this functionality enabled. However, please do note that this

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:15:01AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter': On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:06:37PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: The use of multiple backends in passdb has acknowledged issues, and I'm not particularly fussed if you feel it should

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 03:01, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Simo Sorce wrote: Plus I have some questions about the current sam interface: - what is all the context thing needed for? I don't like global variables, and this allows us to construct seperate contexts for operations like sam2sam,

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:34:47PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote about 'Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter': There is no intention to create a similar backend for the sam. Instead, we do intend to solve this problem in exactly the way you indicate below. There is no intention to provide

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 07:22, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:16:53AM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote about 'Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter': yes a thing I'm not sure has ever been a good idea. to be able to have sam2sam that is really read a backend + store all info

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:06, Andrew Bartlett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let just remove the multi-domain stuff for now and try and get 3.0 in a shippable state. The 'new SAM' stuff is not being proposed for 3.0! Certainly not yet, we have a *lot* of work to do, before it gets

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:47, Andrew Bartlett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's not being used really, as it's not in a production release. We don't make guarentees until it gets into a production release. What non-passdb users are being mapped into the system via this method ?

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:06, Andrew Bartlett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let just remove the multi-domain stuff for now and try and get 3.0 in a shippable state. The 'new SAM' stuff is not being proposed for 3.0! Certainly not yet, we have a *lot* of work

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 12:34, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Simo Sorce wrote: It is all a question on how and where you use them. ^^ Except that global variables are particularly nasty in C - we don't have an autoprototyper on them, and we cannot

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-03 Thread jra
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:39PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: I've seen Volker's patches, and I think that passdb can be made to work for the needs of 3.0, but it is messy. I believe the code as it *currently stands* can support 'net rpc vampire', but will consult volker more closely on

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Gerald Carter wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Eddie Lania wrote: Like I've said, I'm not a developer, but maybe the multiple domain support parameter could be extended with the backend method? Like this: multiple domain support = DOMA:backendA, DOMB:backendB, etc Can someone please

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:19:47AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote about 'Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter': On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Eddie Lania wrote: Like I've said, I'm not a developer, but maybe the multiple domain support parameter could be extended with the backend method? Like

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread jra
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:30:30AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Gerald Carter wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Eddie Lania wrote: Like I've said, I'm not a developer, but maybe the multiple domain support parameter could be extended with the backend method? Like this: multiple

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
- what is all the context thing needed for? Sometimes we need multiple contexts. For example, when doing sam2sam. Please notice that passdb has this as well... Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://nl.linux.org/~jelmer/ Development And Underdevelopment:

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Gerald Carter wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other cases for 'multiple domain' support involve the way these users are reflected back into unix by winbindd, which might be running on a system that has multiple, independent smbd instances on separate IPs.

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Simo Sorce wrote: Plus I have some questions about the current sam interface: - what is all the context thing needed for? I don't like global variables, and this allows us to construct seperate contexts for operations like sam2sam, and testing, without fiddiling with global variables. -

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:16:53AM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote about 'Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter': yes a thing I'm not sure has ever been a good idea. to be able to have sam2sam that is really read a backend + store all info into another backend we may take several ways. We never need

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Bartlett
Simo Sorce wrote: Multi domain DC is never going to happen in samba, it just doesn't make sense, as the protocols used (eg. SMB) will not be able to support such thing, so please let's stop to talk about multi-DC samba. I'm not so sure on this one. Some parts of the protocol might need to

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-01 Thread Herbert Lewis
Eddie Lania wrote: Well, I'm starting to think our syntax is just getting too complex. All the 'solutions' for putting 'domain' in there just look ugly! Some poor admin has to construct this line, and even if they don't use multidomain stuff (and that's almost everybody), then

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-01 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:59:47PM +0200, Eddie Lania wrote: Well, I'm starting to think our syntax is just getting too complex. All the 'solutions' for putting 'domain' in there just look ugly! Some poor admin has to construct this line, and even if they don't use multidomain

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-01 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Well, I'm starting to think our syntax is just getting too complex. All the 'solutions' for putting 'domain' in there just look ugly! Some poor admin has to construct this line, and even if they don't use multidomain stuff (and that's almost everybody), then have to read

Re: [PATCH] sam backend parameter

2002-10-01 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:48:34AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote about '[PATCH] sam backend parameter': Hi Jelmer, here's a patch witch changes the syntax of the sam backend parameter: now it's plugin[|DOMAIN][:options] ... I think it nicer:-) If you didn't accept that patch