[Fedora-directory-devel] Re: Please Review: Add LDAPI (LDAP over unix domain sockets)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:18 -0800, Pete Rowley wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > And where OpenLDAP has done something first, or it's way of doing things
> > is more sane, I ask that Fedora DS follow that lead.  I need less, not
> > more 'if <vendor>' code...
> >
> >   
> Your if vendor code would be zero. Presumably Samba would be enabled 
> with access in line with its operational requirements. Bearing in mind 
> that Samba runs as root, it is likely to find that any machine it is 
> installed on has anonymous access for root, just like it is allowed to 
> actually run as root.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but what I don't want is a
situation where the admin runs Samba4 against a Fedora DS instance, and
forgets to explicitly set 'nsslapd-ldapiautobind: off'.  Samba would end
up proxying anonymous access as root!

It certainly seems an odd default.

Or worse still, there be a disagreement between applications as to if
this is a setting they want, or a setting they don't want.  Instead,
have applications that want EXTERNAL auth ask for it, just as they have
to ask for it for OpenLDAP.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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