Hi William,
On 06/ 3/11 01:44 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.
I am not sure checkboxes is sufficient. For name services, the search
order is important.
If the user check DNS, LDAP and NIS, how do the user express their
preference to
search LDAP first, then, DNS, then NIS?
Add another screen after all name service-specific prompting for the
user to enter name service sources, per nsswitch.conf(4).
Like Dave, I don't think it is a good idea to add another screen to
manage entries in the nsswitch.conf file.
It's difficult to provide a user friendly interface to modifying the
nsswitch.conf file in the UI.
Thanks,
--Karen
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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