Am Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:46:55 +0100 schrieb Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt;: > Another packaging decision: > > Is building with -DLDAP_CONNECTIONLESS of any real use? > > Is there any harm using it? There should be no harm to compile. Early Samba4 used udp for transport.

Am Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:01:11 +0100 schrieb Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt;: > Dieter Klünter wrote: >> Am Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:46:55 +0100 >> schrieb Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt;: >>> Another packaging decision: >>> >>> Is building with -DLDAP_CONNECTIONLESS of any real use? >>> >>> Is there any harm using it? >> >> There should be no harm to compile. Early Samba4 used udp for >> transport. > > I thought Samba4 has its own LDAP client and server implementation. As I mentioned 'early Samba4', and development leading to 4. > > Are you sure Samba4 uses connection-less LDAP implementation of > OpenLDAP's libldap? They are, for the time being, not using libldap.

Dieter Klünter wrote: > Am Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:01:11 +0100 > schrieb Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt;: > >> Dieter Klünter wrote: >>> Am Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:46:55 +0100 >>> schrieb Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com&gt;: >>>> Another packaging decision: >>>> >>>> Is building with -DLDAP_CONNECTIONLESS of any real use? >>>> >>>> Is there any harm using it? >>> >>> There should be no harm to compile. Early Samba4 used udp for >>> transport. >> >> I thought Samba4 has its own LDAP client and server implementation. > > As I mentioned 'early Samba4', and development leading to 4. >> >> Are you sure Samba4 uses connection-less LDAP implementation of >> OpenLDAP's libldap? > > They are, for the time being, not using libldap. => dropped -DLDAP_CONNECTIONLESS BTW: Experience shows that the code of rarely needed or unused features most times get not much attention. Thus it's also a security measure not to add it.

Howard Chu wrote: > As I noted at the beginning of this year, > http://symas.com/docs/2014FOSDEM-WhatsNewInOpenLDAP.pdf there has been a > renewed effort to build Samba4/AD compatibility inside OpenLDAP. This > LDAP_CONNECTIONLESS feature was originally written for PADL's XAD, an AD clone > built on top of OpenLDAP, and it is being reused for the same purpose (AD > compatibility) again now. Noted. If it's ready to be packaged I will happily re-enable -DLDAP_CONNECTIONLESS. But for now: Unused code which isn't there does not break.