[Freeipa-devel] Fields currently available for the user object

[Rob Crittenden]

Adam Young wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 07:13 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>> On 06/16/2010 07:03 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>>> On 06/16/2010 05:09 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> Adam Young wrote:
>>>>> I was comparing what we have in the LDAP schema versus what we are 
>>>>> coming up with for the UI.  These are the fields that the user 
>>>>> object returns if you request -all:
>>>>>
>>>>> We should either keep the UI to only showing a subset of these 
>>>>> fields, or expand the default schema to have the fields that we 
>>>>> want to show in the UI.
>>>>>
>>>>> user login
>>>>> First name
>>>>> Last name
>>>>> Home directory
>>>>> GECOS field
>>>>> Login shell
>>>>> Kerberos principal
>>>>> Email address
>>>>> Password
>>>>> UID
>>>>> Street address
>>>>> Groups
>>>>> Netgroups
>>>>> Rolegroups
>>>>> Taskgroups
>>>>
>>>> We'll need to add Params() for any additional fields we want to 
>>>> capture (mobile number, fax, etc). The attributes in the UI designs 
>>>> are all available in the LDAP schema, we just haven't necessarily 
>>>> created Params for them yet.
>>>>
>>>> rob
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that means additional objects defined in 
>>> freeipa/ipalib/parameters.py?
>>
>> Ah, a little more research and I see that I have to extend  
>> plugins/user.py
> 
> 
> Is there any documentation on how to write plugins, or extend existing 
> plugins?
> 

Pavel annotated a sample plugin:

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/browser/doc/examples/examples.py

rob