Tim Potter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:47:38PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
To initiate this process we'd
"only" need a standardized protocol for
the socket communication. Andrew said that doesn't exist and won't with
regard to winbind. I'd like to focus the discussion in this direction.
- is the winbind team willing to standardize the protocol, or at least
ensure backward compatibility in future versions?
There is a LGPL client library (well library is probably doing it more
justice than it deserves) called wb_client.c which is used in the
NSS modules that talk to winbindd. I would think that would be a
preferable way of talking to winbindd rather then rewriting code
to talk the winbindd protocol.
The problem is that we don't ship it as a shared lib, and it still
expects the client program to fill in the winbind struct. This is the
problem, becouse that struct changes shape regularly.
- is the
winbind team willing to add more RPC calls to the interface?
Not unless they are related to authentication or user/group enumeration.
Agreed. (However I am thinking of moving nss_wins in there soon too, to
match the IRIX code).
Andrew Bartlett
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