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