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| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2006-09-24 02:49:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2007-10-10 12:14:36 -0500 |
| commit | 3e2c696e45b24b0192ab7b1ddaf1dd4d79571609 (patch) | |
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| parent | 0c3194816b513e3743ddcacd1eca2b683ca39b88 (diff) | |
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r18866: Jeremy and Volker have given the go-ahead on the group mapping ldb
code. Yay!
This first commit copies lib/ldb/ from Samba4. A huge congratulations
should go to Simo on this - he has put an enormous amount of work into
ldb, and it's great to see it go into the Samba3 tree.
(This used to be commit bbedf2e34315f5c420a3a05dfe22b1d5cf79f042)
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diff --git a/source3/lib/ldb/web/index.html b/source3/lib/ldb/web/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2715a0d8bd --- /dev/null +++ b/source3/lib/ldb/web/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>ldb</TITLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" VLINK="#292555" LINK="#292555" ALINK="#cc0033"> + +<h1>ldb</h1> + +ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards +compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please +see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a> +project.<p> + +What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API +designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen +as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real +LDAP database.<p> + +ldb is the database engine used in Samba4. + +<h2>Features</h2> + +The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are: + +<ul> +<li>Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking +<li>LDAP-like API +<li>fast operation +<li>choice of local tdb or remote LDAP backends +<li>integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a> +<li>schema-less operation, for trivial setup +<li>modules for extensions (such as schema support) +<li>easy setup of indexes and attribute properties +<li>ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw') +<li>ldif for import/export +</ul> + +<h2>Documentation</h2> + +Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user +documentation. This is your opportunity to make a contribution! Start +with the public functions declared in <a +href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h">ldb.h</a> +and the example code in the <a +href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools +directory</a>. Documentation in the same docbook format used by Samba +would be preferred. + +<h2>Discussion and bug reports</h2> + +ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking +system. For now, please use the <a +href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a> +mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba +bugzilla</a> bug tracking system. + +<h2>Download</h2> + +You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous +svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands: + +<pre> + svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb + svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb + svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc + svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/replace libreplace +</pre> + +To fetch via rsync use these commands: + +<pre> + rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/ldb . + rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/tdb . + rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/talloc . + rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/libreplace . +</pre> + +and build in ldb. It will find the other libraries in the directory +above automatically. + +<hr> +<tiny> +<a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br> +ldb AT tridgell.net +</tiny> + +</BODY> +</HTML> |