On 06/ 3/11 04:44 AM, William Schumann wrote:
In order to provide more than one name service in the text installer/SCI
tool, proposing modifications to the UI. Please review and comment on
this rough draft.
Change name service selection screen, (which presently allows the user
to choose only one among DNS, LDAP, NIS, or None):
offer check boxes instead of a single selection. The user will be
subsequently prompted for configuration of whichever name services were
checked.
It's not clear that a DNS+NIS+LDAP is required, or even sensible. I'd
like Doug and the naming team's feedback there. DNS+NIS or DNS+LDAP is
known to be useful, which is what I'd suggested initially.
Add another screen after all name service-specific prompting for the
user to enter name service sources, per nsswitch.conf(4).
I'm not a fan of adding this screen. I don't want to be in the business
of full customization/management of nameservices, we provide initial
setup only because it's often necessary to get the system to operate
reasonably correctly. If we're going to do anything with nsswitch, I'd
consider just prompting for a profile URL rather than the default
profile that will be applied based on the previous selection.
Dave
UI - 1st pass - offer defaults based on the combination of name services
selected.
Allow the user to change the sources and remember them as long as the
name service selections don't change.
If the user uses F3 and goes back and changes name services, upon return
to the sources screen, there is an additional message to remind the user
that it may be appropriate to alter sources.
The source screen will have two columns for database and source. e.g.
for DNS, the source screen default could be (rough example):
Name Service Database Sources
You have selected name service: DNS. Enter the name service switch
database and source information.
Database Source
---------- --------
default files
hosts files dns mdns
printer user files
[blank] [blank]
...
[additional message here]
Additional messages may include:
-A default list of databases and sources are provided above. You may
edit them, or accept the defaults.
-Note: since the name service was changed, consider changing sources
accordingly.
The UI field validator for sources would permit only known sources and
source values per nsswitch.conf(4)
Thank you for your attention,
William
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