[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES 0001-0011 v3] Profile management

Martin Kosek mkosek at redhat.com
Fri May 22 07:06:16 UTC 2015


On 05/21/2015 05:33 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
> On 20/05/15 16:41, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
>> Hi Honza, Martin et al,
>>
>> Latest patches attached.  On top of previous patches (most review
>> matters addressed**) patches 0008..0011 add support for profiles and
>> user certificates to `ipa cert-request'.
>>
>> ** those that were not are being tracked at [1]; please add anything
>>     I missed.
>>
>> Some points to note:
>>
>> - usercertificate is not yet a multi-valued attribute for users,
>>    hosts and services.

It should be multivalued now, for all 3 entities.

>>    QUESTION - we do want to allow multiple certificates for all
>>    principal types, not just users?  Or have I got that wrong.

You have that right (unless I miss something).

> Changing schema can cause issues in future, we already burn ourselves several
> times.
> If you plan to have multi valued attribute in close future, could be better to
> have mutltivalued schema now, instead of make this change in future?

+1. In general, it is better to do the schema right from the day 0, temporary 
limitations should be rather solved in framework - that is easier to change.

>>
>> - "DN and SAN match principal" checks are not implemented for users
>>    yet.
>>
>> - ACL was added to allow user principals to request their own
>>    certificates, however, this will be further subject to CA/profile
>>    ACLs which are to come.
>>
>> - Pursuant to [2] revocation logic was removed from `cert-request'
>>
>> [1] http://idm.etherpad.corp.redhat.com/rhel72-cert-mgmt-progress
>> [2]
>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/User_Certificates#Revocation_of_the_Certificates
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fraser

Thank you too.

Martin




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