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Development / KDE / Linux / Samba
by Jakub Hrozek and Andreas Schneider The LD_PRELOAD trick! Preloading is a feature of the dynamic linker (ld). It is a available on most Unix system and allows to load a user specified, shared library before all other shared libraries which are linked to an executable. Library pre-loading is most commonly used when you need a custom version of a library function to be called....
Several people asked me about the status about the Active Directory Domain Controller support of Samba in Fedora. As Fedora and RHEL are using MIT Kerberos as its Kerberos infrastructure of choice, the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller implementation is not available with MIT Kerberos at the moment. But we are working on it! Günther Deschner and I gave a talk at the SambaXP conference...