[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 402 Add userClass attribute for hosts

[Petr Viktorin]

On 04/25/2013 06:59 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 09:54 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> On 04/25/2013 12:37 PM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> On 04/23/2013 10:10 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>>>> This new freeform host attribute will allow provisioning systems
>>>> to add custom tags for host objects which can be later used for
>>>> in automember rules or for additional local interpretation.
>>>>
>>>> Design page:
>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/Integration_with_a_provisioning_systems
>>>> Ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3583
>>>>
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>
> Can we use this patch to create a HOWTO on how to add and LDAP attribute
> to IPA?

Yes, I can annotate the patch and put it on the wiki. I'll do it once 
it's pushed so I can link to it.

I know we're trying to organize the wiki page names. What's the correct 
location for a developer-focused HOWTO?

> Also we have, I suspect a lot of metadata about attributes encoded in
> the framework, right?
> Why can't we use some kind of the data file(s) for it? This way one can
> add attributes dynamically and the framework would pick them up.
> It is clear that it would have to be done on all replicas

So we should store it in LDAP and have it replicated.

> but still it
> would not require people to change the code - only configuration. Have
> we ever thought about this?

If you're talking about parameters in the the framework commands, I 
think --setattr is fine.
Or is this also about the schema? Web UI?

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Petr³