Re: automatic uidnumber overlay

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:30:24PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> > Interesting. Perhaps instead, your overlay should just maintain a fixed
> > entry with a copy of the largest uidNumber in it, instead of searching the
> > entire tree all the time.
>
> FWIW, I had the same need, plus allocating gidNumber, sambaSID and whatever.
> I do with with a dirty hack that filters the output of an accesslog
> overlay directed to a shell backend.
>
> When I'll have some time, I'd like to write on a slapo-exec, to run
> external scripts on various conditions. That would be much cleaner.

fork() is rather hazardous in a threaded program (which is one of the major 
problems with back-shell). Better to take the approach that back-sock uses, or 
just wrap some overlay glue around back-sock itself. (Much like slapo-chain is 
a simple wrapper around back-ldap.)
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