[Freeipa-users] Auto membership plugin

Nathan Kinder nkinder at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 15:41:02 UTC 2011


On 03/30/2011 10:19 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 12:44 PM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 06:00 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please find the design for the auto membership plugin:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/753
>>> Here: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Auto_Membership_Design
>> I had a lengthy discussion with JR, and I have come up with an
>> alternate approach.  I have added this approach to the design
>> document.  I am currently leaning towards this new approach.  Please
>> take a look at it.
>>> I have some comments and questions:
>>> 1) Is the AND functionality for inclusion criteria required?
>>> 2) How the attributes are escaped? Do they need to? Probably there will
>>> be cases when they should be escaped
>>> 3) Parsing pairs in the value as a bit of overhead. I wonder if there is
>>> any way to avoid it?
>>> 4) I have concerns about the UI and CLI, do you see any good ways to
>>> mange such entries?
>>>
> Makes sense
Great.  Unless I hear otherwise, I am going to move forward with this 
newer approach and abandon the original approach (and clean it from the 
design doc to avoid confusion).

-NGK




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