NFSv4-patched ACL lib dependencies

[Kevin Coffman]

Feedback :-)

I _was_ planning to install all the libs in the same place. I should
know this but, is there any reason libnfsidmap_umich_ldap.so can't, or
shouldn't, be installed in /lib as well?

Thanks,
K.C.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Paarvai Naai <opensource3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Thanks for your email.  This looks very promising.
>
> If I am to understand correctly, would the plan be to place
> libnfsidmap.so, libnfsidmap_nsswitch.so, libnfsidmap_static.so in /lib
> and libnfsidmap_umich_ldap.so in /usr/lib?  This way /lib/libacl.so
> can be linked against /lib/libnfsidmap.so and remove all dependencies
> on /usr/lib during bootup.
>
> Thanks again,
> Paarvai
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Kevin Coffman <kwc at umich.edu> wrote:
>> I have not heard any feedback on this yet...  Perhaps I should just
>> put it out and wait for complaints?
>>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:32:29 -0400
>> From: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc at citi.umich.edu>
>> To: nfsv4 <nfsv4 at linux-nfs.org>
>> Subject: libnfsidmap-0.21b1 (beta) is available
>>
>> A new *BETA* version of libnfsidmap is now available from
>> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libnfsidmap/libnfsidmap-0.21=
>> b1.tar.gz
>>
>> Changes since libnfsidmap-0.20:
>>
>> The main library has been changed to load "plugin" libraries to
>> perform the mappings.  This decouples the main library from any ldap
>> (and sasl, etc.) dependencies.
>>
>> Several translation methods (plugins) may now be specified in the
>> idmapd.conf file.  While a plugin returns -ENOENT, the next is called
>> until a mapping is found, or there are no more plugins to try.
>>
>> A "static" mapping plugin from David H=E4rdeman <david at hardeman.nu> has
>> been added.
>>
>> A "gums" mapping plugin from Olga Kornievskaia <aglo at citi.umich.edu>
>> has been added.  Olga also did most of the work to convert the code to
>> use this new plugin architecture.
>>
>> The interface is changed to add two new functions,
>> nfs4_gss_princ_to_ids_ex(), and nfs4_gss_princ_to_grouplist_ex() which
>> allow extra information to be passed to these mapping functions.
>>
>> Please try it out and give us feedback.
>>
>
>