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Adjustments for a separate Linbo installation

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell

Research direction

Start in share/helperfunctions.sh, reviewing the global LDBSEARCH definition and get_hostname(), get_mac(), get_ip(), get_hostgroup(), and get_hostname_dhcp_ip(). Trace how these functions depend on tools available on the Samba AD server and determine the required Linuxmuster server API calls. Done means Linbo can run on a separate server without those local dependencies, with the affected functions still providing their expected results.

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Description

7.4 enhancement

To reduce the load on the Linuxmuster server and offload individual services, it would be great if Linbo could run on a separate server. Currently, this isn't possible due to tools that are only available on the Samba AD server. After an initial review, I noticed the following issues in the linuxmuster-common package:

Global $LDBSEARCH-definition:

get_hostname():

get_mac():

get_ip():

get_hostgroup():

get_hostname_dhcp_ip():

As discussed, it would be ideal to replace these tools with API calls to the Linuxmuster server.

Best regards, Lukas

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