Re: [pdbsql-users] latest state

[Václav K. <ven...@gm...>]

I my case, SAMBA is only translator from/to obscure M$oft protocols to
linux hosted file share. So Samba even does not need to know any users,
just it has to have some facility (plugin, or even connection to HTTP(s)
endpoint allowing leave all impl detail to any programming lang) that can
tell to samba: "user with this ID is within this groups, login hours, or
whatever info needed to operate". LDAP is not the only way to store info...
:) Am i Wrong?

On 9 February 2016 at 22:12, Jelmer Vernooij <je...@sa...> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Herwin Weststrate wrote:
> > 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 ;)
> Samba 4 is not a rewrite of the core. passdb is still there, and pdbsql
> should still work (module a bunch of minor API changes).
>
> However, passdb is not used if you use samba in AD DC mode - just if
> you use it as a traditional NT4-style domain controller. A thing like
> pdbsql isn't possible with the AD DC since all users are stored in
> the internal LDAP server.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
>
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