Re: [pdbsql-users] latest state

[Herwin W. <he...@he...>]

On 02/07/2016 09:54 PM, Václav Klecanda wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to know what is the lates state of this project and if
> there is still some people iterresting in it. If so, where can I find
> latest docs and code?

The code has been updated for Samba releases in the 3.x-branch. I
haven't really made any official releases on sourceforge, but you can
always use the svn branches at
http://sourceforge.net/p/pdbsql/code/HEAD/tree/branches/, the name of
the branch indicates the version. Docs are included in the branches. I
also have a clone living at https://github.com/herwinw/pdbsql, it
contains a 3.6 branch that has been minimized (pdsql_36_light). I've got
that one on a production server and it works.

The SQL modules have not really changed the last years, except for
changes required for newer Samba versions. pdb_multi also kind of works,
but the whole idea behind it is a bit tricky, I would advise against
using that in production unless you're willing to give it a long test run.

Samba 4 is not supported, that has been a complete rewrite of the core
and I couldn't really find where it stored the users in the four minutes
I tried looking at them. I know S4 has a Python-interpreter embedded
into it, so I'm hoping that instead of compiling a plugin it would be
possible to just load a python script of a few lines that fetches users
from a database. But since S4 also includes an LDAP server it might be
worth a try to see if you could just use that LDAP to store your users
instead of the database. I kind of got a liking to systems that work out
of the box the last years ;)

Kind regards,

-- 
Herwin Weststrate