[Freeipa-devel] what do we want to show?

Pete Rowley prowley at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 18:36:08 UTC 2007


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Currently ipa-finduser and ipa-findgroup display a fairly random set 
> of attributes.
>
> What do we want to show?
>
> I was thinking ala finger:
>
> username
> cn
> homeDirectory
> shell
> krbPrincipalName
>
I think this is fine as default
> But if the GUI is used we'll also have full address, phone, etc.
>
An option to show the rest would be good.
> cn
> description
> gidnumber
> members
>
> The thing about members is that it includes the DN of the member which 
> isn't particulary human-readable.
>
> I have a couple ideas about that:
>
> 1. Make membership an optional argument
Good idea I think.
> 2. Translate members into something more readable by looking up the cn 
> for each member (expensive).
Would be quite cheap if you search on memberof attribute - it's one 
search to get all you need.


-- 
Pete

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