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

[jonathan@phillipoux.net]

On 17/08/2009 11:09, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely, I for one am very interested. Looking forward to it :)

Jonathan