On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 07:52 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > I've been working to allow Fedora DS to backend Samba4, much as OpenLDAP > > can. This, I hope, will bring us the benefits of a replicated backend > > between Samba4 servers. > > > > To set this up, I've placed some notes in setup/fedora-ds-init.ldif and > > extended the provision script. The provision now succeeds, and Win2k3 > > can join and log into the Samba4/FDS domain. > > > Excellent! > > The next step is to test the Fedora DS backend in our 'make test' > > script. For that, I'll need some help. I need to automatically > > configure and start fedora DS, from within the test scripts. I > > understand some testing scripts to do this exist... > > > Basically, you create a .inf file, and pass this file to > bin/slapd/admin/bin/ds_create or ds_newinst.pl - see > http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Install_Guide#Creating_an_instance_if_using_just_the_core_DS I'll give that a shot. > > To integrate such scripts with Samba4, I need a few things: > > > > Ideally it would bind to an ldapi:// socket (this is redhat bug 219573: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219573 ), but for > > now a high port would do. > > > > Likewise, it would be ideal if fedora DS could terminate with the > > process group, so we don't risk leaving ldap servers around after a > > failed test. > > > You can start the server with the "-d 0" argument - this causes the > server to not detach from the controlling terminal. Thanks > > Finally, I need USN support in Fedora DS, or something very much like > > the contextCSN attribute in OpenLDAP. (With a way to obtain a highest > > value, preferably also a way to get a 'new' value too). > > > Do you need this to work even if the server does not participate in > replication? CSNs are only generated if the server is configured to > participate in replication. Yes, I need it no matter how the server is configured. Of course, I'm happy to have replication configured, just unused. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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