openldap-devel May 2008

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dITStructureRules/nameForms in subschema subentry for informational purpose
by Michael Ströder 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

HI! Discussed this very briefly with Howard at LDAPcon 2007 based on an idea of Steve: Support for dITStructureRules and nameForms is still in OpenLDAP's TODO. In the meanwhile slapd could accept definitions for both in slapd.conf and simply pass them on to a schema-aware LDAP client for informational purpose without enforcing them. Same function like rootDSE <file> in slapd.conf. Opinions? Ciao, Michael. -- Michael Ströder E-Mail: michael(a)stroeder.com http://www.stroeder.com

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managing OpenLDAP / back-config
by Ralf Haferkamp 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

With the great features that back-config provides to configure OpenLDAP servers at runtime it seems logical to start thinking about providing tools that could help to leverage those features. Currently to manage an OpenLDAP server through back-config you have the option to use either a generic LDAP Browser (JXplorer, Apache LDAP Studio, web2ldap), the OpenLDAP command line tools (ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ...) or homegrown software using one of the available LDAP APIs. I think it would be helpful to have some more sophisticated management tools (Commandline and/or GUI). In order to get there I think it could be helpful to create an API dedicated to provide an easy way to access the OpenLDAP configuration (databases, overlays, schema, access control, ...). This API could then be used to create different flavors of management tools. I have not yet spend too much time thinking about the design of such an API. Neither about the programming language that I'd use to implement something like this (Python, C, C++, ?). I first like to get a feeling how others think about this and if anybody is interested in collaborating on such an API. So please feel free to reply with your comments and suggestions :) -- regards, Ralf

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Please retest RE24
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Two new bug fixes for RE24 committed today. Please retest. Hopefully this'll be all for 2.4.10. Thanks!! --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

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Final round of RE-23 testing for 2.3.42
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 30 May '08

30 May '08

3 new fixes in, please test. Thanks, Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

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Please test RE24
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 30 May '08

30 May '08

Please test RE 24 in preparation for 2.4.10. Thanks! --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

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OpenLDAP Setup Scripts
by Gavin Henry 29 May '08

29 May '08

Dear All, What are the basic requirements we can always count on when building the OpenLDAP suite? I'm trying to pick the right language for the menu build system for the contrib scripts for: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200805/msg00087.html Something like http://wiki.sblug.org/Bash_Menu_Program works with Bash or /bin/sh then use sed/awk for the suffix subs etc. I could use Perl and stick to core modules etc. as that comes as standard normally. Thoughts? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ Suretec Systems is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC258005. Registered office: 13 Whiteley Well Place, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 4FP.

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problems compiling with glibc-2.8
by Luca Scamoni 27 May '08

27 May '08

Thought I would just drop in a note on this... There have been changes with glibc 2.8. Now struct ucred is ifdef'd under _GNU_SOURCE Maybe configure should detect if it's needed?

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Re: Final round of RE-23 testing for 2.3.42
by Luca Scamoni 26 May '08

26 May '08

OK on Fedora 9 i386, CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (vmware) Ing. Luca Scamoni Responsabile Ricerca e Sviluppo SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it ----------------------------------- Office: +39 0382 573859 (137) Mobile: +39 347 1014425 Email: luca.scamoni(a)sys-net.it -----------------------------------

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TODO
by Howard Chu 25 May '08

25 May '08

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? -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

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Please test RE23
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 19 May '08

19 May '08

Final anticipated fix is in for RE2.3. Please test. --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

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