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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2006-09-24 02:49:04 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 12:14:36 -0500
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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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+<!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>