sambaXP 2023: Samba back-end for OpenLDAP
Talk by Nadezhda Ivanova (Samba Team).
Abstract:
The effort to integrate the Samba AD service with OpenLDAP has been going, off and on, for a few years now. While the idea to replace Samba's LDAP server with OpenLDAP is far from dead, the actual implementation plan has evolved, largely because of the progress Samba has made over the years, such as its LMDB back-end. What started as an effort to revive the long defunct OpenLDAP back-end for Samba and use it as a base to gradually port Samba functionality as overlay modules, is being transformed into a different type of integration - execute Samba's LDB module stack inside OpenLDAP, with the possibility to optimize it for better performance. The purpose of this talk is to give some history on the project development so far, explain the new direction, and present the challenges it faces.
Slides: https://sambaxp.org/fileadmin/user_up...
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