[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] 22-24 Add initial support for ID ranges

[Sumit Bose]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:54:40AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:35 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 21:17 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > to keep track of the different ranges we use for UIDs/GIDs for local
> > > > users/groups and users from trusted domains new range objects are
> > > > introduced which are stored below cn=range,cn=etc,$SUFFIX.
> > > > 
> > > > 0022: LDAP schema update
> > > 
> > > ack
> > > 
> > > > 0023: Create a range object during installation fir the local ID range
> > > 
> > > nack, I think we need to find a way to handle adding at least the base
> > > range on update. Otherwise an updated server won't be able to have IDs
> > > for most of its users.
> > 
> > I fully agree, but since we said that we concentrate on update issues in
> > beta2 I wanted to send the version for the fresh install first to allow
> > testing.
> 
> The reason I'd like updates is that this patchset can be installed on
> top of existing servers for testing w/o having to reinstall from scratch
> or manually creating the ipaDomainIDRange object :):)

ok, will do.

Do you otherwise agree with the patches or is there something I should
change while adding the updates?

bye,
Sumit

> 
> > > 
> > > > 0024: add primary and secondary RID base to the local range object
> > > >       during ipa-adtrust-install
> > > 
> > > Not sure if setting the range belongs in the previous patch or this one.
> > 
> > I think it is right here, because a plain IPA server does not need the
> > RID related attributes.
> > 
> > > We might decide to ask questions during ipa-adtrust-install if the range
> > > is not available, maybe presenting a set of pre-canned choices if we can
> > > detect them.
> > 
> > I agree here, too. But as above I would like to handle update issues
> > in a second round.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Finally I think we need to do a search with uid/gidNmber < base and
> > > uid/gidNumber > max and prompt/warn the user if we detect any ID the
> > > falls outside the configured range (either because we failed to detect
> > > ranges on upgrade and the user botched the question or because the admin
> > > added arbitrary IDs.
> > > If a warning we should warn that missing a range that suitably covers
> > > these IDs, those users/groups will not be available for the trust.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we should also have a simple ipa command that can list all
> > > users/groups that fall outside the ranges as well.
> > 
> > I'm working on the ranges cli plugin to allow 'ipa range-add', 'ipa
> > range-find' etc. I can add it there.
> > 
> > bye,
> > Sumit
> > 
> > > 
> > > Simo.
> > > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
> > > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
>