Sponsoring a canon_user plugin for LDAP lookup

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi Alexey!

Thanks for coming back on this.

> Considering that I have my own fork of LDAPDB, I am probably in the best 
> position to take care of this.

Would you do it? I mean, would it be just your decision to do so and that's it? Or would there be any voting, committee or whatever involved?

Let me know if I can be of any help with that. I was the one who originally needed and asked for these.

BTW: The project's webpage at CMU seem to have a problem. The Wiki at http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ doesn't come up at all and the traditional pages have a lot of

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I am asking because in case I found the time I might write up some howto on how to install and use the canon_user plugin.

Regards,
Torsten

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Datum: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:15:49 +0100
Von: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>
An: Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net>
CC: Thomas Vogt <tv at solnet.ch>, cyrus-sasl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Betreff: Re: Sponsoring a canon_user plugin for LDAP lookup

> Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> 
> > I don't think these patches might ever hurt anyone. I had asked Howard 
> > Chu who's an experienced guy both here as well as with OpenLDAP (I 
> > understand he's even the head of OpenLDAP) and even he did not have 
> > any means of getting that patch in.
> >
> > If this was an Apache project, then I knew what I'd do to get the 
> > patch in. But the Cyrus SASL lib project does not seem to have a bug 
> > tracker 
> 
> This is actually not true. Check <http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu>
> 
> > and no list of people with write access to the CVS so one could ask 
> > specifically.
> 
> Yes. This is missing. The following people have commit access to the CVS:
> 
> Ken Murchison <murch at andrew.cmu.edu>, Jeff Eaton <jeaton at andrew.cmu.edu> 
> and myself.
> 
> > Getting that patches committed would be the only way to make sure this 
> > functionality will ever show up in any offical packages on Debian, Red 
> > Hat, etc. and will become mainstream functionality.
> 
> Considering that I have my own fork of LDAPDB, I am probably in the best 
> position to take care of this.
> 
> > But first of all, I hope you can make it work. In case you can, please 
> > let us know and in case a vote will be needed to get this patches 
> > committed, maybe you could vote for it?
> >
> > Let me know if I can be of any further help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Torsten
> 
>