[Freeipa-devel] Please review: V4/AD user short names design draft

[Martin Babinsky]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:34:42PM +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>On ti, 07 maalis 2017, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 09:38 +0100, Martin Babinsky wrote:
>> > On 03/06/2017 01:48 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 07:47 +0100, Martin Babinsky wrote:
>> > >> On 03/02/2017 02:54 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> > >>> On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 08:10 +0100, Martin Babinsky wrote:
>> > >>>> In this case it would probably be a good idea to think about "forward
>> > >>>> compatibility" and define a new AUX objectclass bringing in
>> > >>>> 'ipaDomainResolutionOrder' instead of extending two separate
>> > >>>> objectclasses. In this way we may the just extend whathever object we
>> > >>>> desire to carry the override in an easy and clean way.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I agree.
>> > >>> Simo.
>> > >>>
>> > >>
>> > >> Now the most difficult question remains... How to name this objectclass.
>> > >> I personally am out of ideas but will try my best to come up with
>> > >> something meaningful.
>> > >
>> > > Try to describe what the option ultimately does with as few words as
>> > > possible.
>> > >
>> > > Simo.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > 
>> > I was thinking about this and since we are performing name qualification
>> > (short-name -> fully-qualified name incl. domain/realm part), I would
>> > like to propose the following naming schema:
>> > 
>> > objectlasses: ( OID_TBD NAME ipaNameQualificationData Desc 'data used
>> > for short name qualification data' SUP top AUXILIARY MAY
>> > (ipaNameQualificationDomainList) X-ORIGIN 'IPA 4.5' )
>> > 
>> > attributeTypes: ( OID_TBD NAME 'ipaNameQualificationDomainList' DESC
>> > 'List of domains used to qualify user short name' EQUALITY
>> > caseIgnoreIA5Match SINGLE-VALUE SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
>> > X-ORIGIN 'IPA v4.5' )
>> > 
>> > Let me know if you are ok with this or am I overengineering the names?
>> > 
>> > I would like to solve this quickly so that I can finish the design and
>> > start implementation.
>> 
>> I was thinking that we can use acronyms here to make it less of a
>> mouthful and also more easily recognizable:
>> My idea is:
>> - ipaNameQualificationData -> ipaFQDNPolicies
>> - ipaNameQualificationDomainList -> ipaFQDNCheckOrder
>Sounds good to me.
>-- 
>/ Alexander Bokovoy

I am not sure about the relation of this to any policy, but I guess that is
just nitpicking.

I will wait awhile for others to object and then update design.

-- 
Martin Babinsky