[Freeipa-devel] emerging standard for hosts/passwords policy/automount/netgroups in LDAP

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 09:40 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> FYI I have come across following RFC drafts:
> 
> (please start with the first one :-)
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-mapping-03.txt
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-passwd-02
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-policy-03.txt
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-netgroup-02
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-automounter-02
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-hosts-04
> 
> I didn't study them in detail but it seems like an attempt to standardize 
> Directory User Agent (DUA) profiles for various things like automounter etc.
> 
> Maybe we can contact the author and coordinate/harmonize what possible.
> 
> At first glance automount spec seems incompatible with RFC2307bis schema, 
> maybe that is one of things we can discuss and try to solve.
> 

I've had a somewhat heated discussion on the relevant IETF list with the
author.

Let's say we do not agree on many things, feel free to read archives on
ldapext mailing list :-)

The discussion petered out a while ago.

Simo.

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