TODO

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Some project ideas that have come out of discussions at this week's Ubuntu 
Developer Summit:
 * canned slapd.conf / config.ldif with simple tree and Samba3 support
 * canned config with Heimdal KDC support
 * canned templates to create LDAP users with POSIX, Samba, and KDC 
attributes fully populated
   * for web2ldap
   * plugin for Linux useradd/userdel

I think the canned configs are pretty small projects - just write a config, do 
some variable substitution on the database suffix etc., and it should be ready 
to use. We can provide these in the contrib tree with appropriate READMEs. Any 
volunteers?

On a separate topic, I've been slowly rewriting nss-ldapd as a slapd overlay 
(in between technical sessions at the Summit). This will also be showing up in 
contrib soon. With this approach, we can eliminate all the 
libldap/libldap_r/version dependencies that currently plague the usual 
nss-ldap implementation (and nss-ldapd already does that). Plus, we can not 
only have direct NSS mapping into local slapd databases, but with back-ldap, 
pcache, and/or translucent, we can also provide excellent NSS performance from 
a remote LDAP server, as well as locally cached credentials for disconnected 
host operation.

Which reminds me, it would still be a good idea to develop a back-tdb using 
Samba's tdb library, as a lightweight/small footprint/easy to configure 
transactional backend. The last time I checked tdb would only safely support 
up to about 500,000 objects, but for a lot of smaller sites that would be more 
than enough, and the limitation would be worth the simplification of the 
configs/tuning aspects. Again - any volunteers looking for some fun projects?
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  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/