[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA and vSphere

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 19:29 +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On ke, 14 joulu 2016, Serhii Honchar wrote:
> >Alexander,
> >as per RFC2696 in such case:
> >---
> >
> >If the server does not support this control, the server
> >   MUST return an error of unsupportedCriticalExtension if the client
> >   requested it as critical,
> >
> >---
> >So  in case slapi-nis plugin doesn't support "paged results control", it is
> >quite incorrect to absolutely ignore control regardless of their
> >"criticality". To comply with RFC2696 slapi-nis plugin shall reply
> >with "unsupportedCriticalExtension"
> >error in such cases. Am i right?
> That's right, but slapi-nis never supported paged search results before
> and I'm not sure we want it to do that with the current code as it is
> not trivial at all.
> 
> You may file a bug about paged results but I suspect it will start
> working with the refactoring of slapi-nis we plan for global catalog
> support in FreeIPA 4.5/4.6 where we'll move content of the slapi-nis
> virtual memory cache to a proper database backend in a separate 389-ds
> instance.

Yes it is definitely a bug, but not an easy fix, please do file a bug,
however it will take some time before we can fix it.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York