Re: (ITS#4730) Overlay that generates operational attributes to support GUI interaction

[michael@stroeder.com]

masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
>>
>> I've added support for 'allowedAttributesEffective' in web2ldap recently
>> which
>> works with AD. I tried this overlay but it seg faults with recent OpenLDAP
>> version. Any chance to get this back on the radar?
> 
> I've built and tested my copy of allowed.c with HEAD and re24 and it works
> as expected.  However, I might have modified it to keep pace with baseline
> code evolution without resubmitting modifications.  I can't check right
> now but I will.  If needed, I'll resubmit the modified code, so consider
> it done.
> 
> The main reason I didn't put it directly in contrib/ is that at that time
> I was considering the opportunity of packaging all contributions and
> customizations intended for samba4 in something as self contained as
> possible (in the end, supporting all samba4 related extensions may result
> in stacking dozens of overlays, which may result in overhead and possibly
> in incompatibilities, something we might need to deal with at some point).
> 
> However, as your interest seems to revitalize this feature, I see no
> objection in putting it at least in contrib (if there's enough consensus).

I'd highly appreciate to find copy under contrib/. Other people I know also
have interest in that. Many thanks.

Ciao, Michael.