Referral handling in libnfsidmap

[Kevin Coffman]

On 1/31/07, Rajat Upadhyaya <urajat at novell.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>> On 1/31/2007 at 4:45 AM, "Kevin Coffman" <kwc at citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> > On 1/24/07, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at novell.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Does the libnfsidmap code handle referrals? If not, any plans to add the
> > support?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Suresh
> >
> > Sorry for the delay in responding.  What kind of support is needed in
> > libnfsidmap?
> >
>
> As far as my understanding goes, libnfsidmap code does not handle cases where
> an LDAP call returns LDAP_REFERRAL (or an equivalent return code) - only
> LDAP_SUCCESS is handled. So AFAICT this handling needs to be added plus
> some processing to make use of the referral itself.
>
> Regards,
> Rajat

OK.  My initial thought was that this was about NFSv4 referrals.  This
is the first I've heard of the need to handle LDAP referrals.  We
currently have no plans to add this support.

K.C.