Hi Andrew,

----- "Andrew Bartlett" abartlet@samba.org wrote:

• a replacement for the Samba4 rdn_name module. For OpenLDAP I have

tried out ITS#6055 but it fails, sadly. http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Development?id=6055;selectid=6055 I don't know of any comparable effort in Fedora DS.

We're considering this proposal for FDS: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/RDN_Value At this point it's still being designed, so I can't say yet when this would become available.

• Transaction support. While most of the transaction-aware tasks in

Samba have now been either pushed off as 'too hard on LDAP' or into modules that are now in the LDAP backend, we still do need transactions over LDAP.

Transaction on FDS is deferred until later this year: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LDAP_Transactions

• A way to easily detect that we have OpenLDAP or Fedora DS

installed on the system, and what it's version is. Once we have that, we could start trying to run at least some of Samba4's tests against such a backend regularly (and stop breaking it so often).

The buildsamba02 machine is configured to test against FDS: http://build.samba.org/?function=View+Build;host=buildsamba02;tree=samba_4_0...

I hope there's somebody who could maintain a similar system configured with OpenLDAP.

• Some help debugging the existing 'make test' failures!

I've fixed some FDS-specific failures. I'll send you the patches soon.

To address a broader range of use cases, I'm looking forward to the work Endi has promised for a 'ldap backend config file' as input to provision. Hopefully this will reduce the options we have to present to users on the provision command line.

Sorry about the delay on this. It's coming but slowly because I have to handle other issues as well.

Thanks!

-- Endi S. Dewata