[Freeipa-devel] User life-cycle management as additional plugin

[thierry bordaz]

On 11/04/2014 10:58 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dne 4.11.2014 v 10:46 Petr Spacek napsal(a):
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wonder if user life-cycle extensions [1] can be in form of separate
>> FreeIPA plugin for FreeIPA framework.
>>
>> Reasoning behind this is that different organizations will have
>> different requirements (including no life-cycle management).
>>
>> I don't think that one-size-fits-all so from my point of view it makes
>> sense to ease replacing our life-cycle management by some home-grown
>> plugin.
>>
>> Is something like that possible?
>
> I'm afraid the framework is not extensible enough for this in its 
> current incarnation. There is no way (or just a very hacky one) to add 
> new options to an existing command in the form of a plugin.
>
>>
>> [1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/User_Life-Cycle_Management
>>
>
> Honza
>
Hi Petr,

    I like the idea of home-grown ULC. If it is not feasible with the
    current framework, customer would have the ability to define home
    made placeholder.
    I does not implement the workflow of commands but is a kind of
    flexibility.

    thanks
    thierry

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