[Freeipa-devel] automount in LDAP

[Dmitri Pal]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 20:35 -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>
>   
>>> Determining the location of the client is indeed only a precondition to
>>> determine which services to use. Depending on the service you want to
>>> use, policies on which server is appropriate to contact may vary.
>>>
>>> Simo.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I would say they are two independent things: which server to connect and 
>> which policies to get.
>>     
>
> I think you misunderstood my comment, I will try to rephrase.
>
> Depending on what kind of service (not server) you want to connect to
> (ldap, nfs, http, ssh, ftp, mysql, voip, imap, smtp, ....) the admins
> may decide that different servers are the ones you should connect to,
> depending on which location your machine is located.
>
> If you are in Europe and there are servers in Madrid, Berlin, London
> that offer nfs and imap, admins may have a policy (not in the sense of
> IPA policies, I mean company policy) for which nfs is always going to be
> served from the server in Madrid, while imap can be served either from
> London or Berlin, whichever is closest to you.
>
> So for this decision to happen, location is just a precondition, further
> configuration directives are needed to determine what should be the
> client preferences. (For some services this will be done through DNS
> discovery, while in some cases an IPA policy might override DNS
> mechanisms).
>
> (I am willfully completely ignoring the fact that currently most Linux
> apps cannot dynamically change their configuration this way, but IPA
> components should move toward this goal).
>
> Simo.
>
>   
Ok I got it.
Sounds like a good idea to keep in mind for future.
This is definitely not something we would be able to solve in v2.

Thanks
Dmitri