[Freeipa-devel] ipapwd_extop vs password_extop

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2016, thierry bordaz wrote:
>>>Well here we have IPA password extop that receives a 'compat' 
>>>entry. This compat entry does not exist except in slapi-nis that 
>>>can do the mapping to the real entry. What I was thinking of was 
>>>some kind of call from IPA password extop to slapi-nis that for a 
>>>given entry DN return the real entryDN. But the tranformation of 
>>>the extop('compat') -> extop('real') would be done in IPA password 
>>>extop
>>no, just look at slapi-nis code to see how we rewrite DN of the request.
>>You'd need to do a similar trick.
>>
>
>Thanks for the pointer. What differs is that slapi-nis is doing the 
>mapping in an operation (here bind) preop.
>But with extop there is no preop call. Mapping looks to be done in 
>backend_locate, my understanding is that we need to find a way to call 
>something like backend_locate from extop and it can not be done with 
>an internal search because slapi-nis ignores them.
May be it is time to add pre/post operations for extop? Granted, they
are not going to be useful for most cases but this would solve our
problem, right?
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/ Alexander Bokovoy