Re: SummerOfCode suggestions

Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:

I recall we had a few ideas last year, but they came up a bit late. Anyone still have some wish list items for this year?

External command execution overlay: it would enable calling fork()/execve() for a set of (operation, baseDN, pré-condition, post-condition). execve argument would allow substitution for various input: %{dn}, %{uid}, and so on.

For now this can be acheived by setting up an accesslog overlay on a shell backend and having a program filtering the produced LDIF, but it is rather suboptimal, and everyone has to reinvent the wheel for the LDIF filtering.

I use it to allocate UID and GID automatically when a user is created, and to setup homes and quotas on machines that need it.