[Pki-devel] [PATCH] 106-2 Fixes for comments on 106 (#1036)

Abhishek Koneru akoneru at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 20:43:31 UTC 2014


Pushed patch 107 to master.

Please review the patch 106-2 which addresses the below comments.

-- Abhishek
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 22:44 -0400, Ade Lee wrote:
> ACK on 107.
> 
> On 106 (man page), a few comments:
> 0.  Command-Line Interface for managing profiles in the Certificate
> System.  ->  
>     Command-Line Interface for managing Certificate System profiles.
> 1. Is it true that you can leave out the ca- ?
> 2. You forgot to mention pki <subsystem>-profile in the description.
> 3.  profile-show:
>     This command is to get a profile. --> 
>     This command is to view the details of a profile.
> 4.  Remove the phrase "in the CA" as it is redundant.
> 5.  enable/disable profile.  For disable, you should mention that
>     a profile needs to be disabled before it can be edited.  For 
>     enable, you should mention that a profile needs to be enabled 
>     before it can be used.
> 6.  Authentication -- different commands require different roles to 
>     authenticate.  You need to look them up, but enable/disable are 
>     agent operations, add/del/mod are admin operations, find/show   
>     should be both.
> 
> 7.  The options start and stop can be used to specify the beginning and
> the size of the list. --> Not very clear, you need to bold the options.
> Also, stop is not an option.
> 
> 8.  "view the contents of the profile".  It would be nice to mention
> some of the things that are in there.  eg.  These contents include
> profile inputs, profile outputs, authenticators, profile policies and
> constraints.
> 
> 9. This output file can be filled with data and used for certificate
> enrollment.  --> This is true but deceptive.  Really the only thing t
> matters are the profile inputs.  The rest are likely to be ignored.
> 
> To get a template suitable for an enrollment, you really want to use 
> pki cert-request-profile-show.  In fact, its a good idea to mention that
> fact here.
> 
> Where profile-show is useful is for constructing new profiles or
> modifying profiles.
> 
> 10. Modify/Delete -- note that the profile must be disabled before these
> operations can occur.
> 
> Ade
> 
> On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 16:09 -0400, Abhishek Koneru wrote:
> > Please review the attached patches with fixes for tickets 1036(man page
> > for profile CLI commands) and 1037 (issue in request status on
> > reject/cancel action on a key request).
> > 
> > -- Abhishek
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