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.
- is the winbind team willing to add more RPC calls to the interface?
Not unless they are related to authentication or user/group enumeration.
"winebind" would be linked against Samba libraries, and therefore be GPL from the start.
Heh - cute name. (-:
Tim.