That works for me.
Thanks,
Darren.
On 15/06/2011 16:45, William Schumann wrote:
> Darren,
> Because of imminent completion of:
> CR 7054440 Allow combination of name services to be configured in S11 text
> installer: DNS+NIS, DNS+LDAP
> The user will have the chance to configure DNS+LDAP. If the user selects
> configures LDAP only, I will assume that the user does not
> want DNS and that the best guess is that the user wants LDAP for host names.
> So, the network/name-service/switch for LDAP-only will be
> default: files ldap
> printer: user files ldap
> netgroup: ldap
> So 'hosts' will default to 'files ldap'.
> Does this work for all concerned?
> William
>
> On 06/14/11 12:17 PM, William Schumann wrote:
>> Darren,
>> This change refers to SMF profile setup for
>> svc:/network/name-service/switch, which functions as nsswitch.conf(4)
>> 'database' here refers to the source of the name service resolution.
>> The 'default' source is a new approach for SMF - nsswitch.conf must have all
>> values explicit.
>> Source 'host' allows the user to specify the source of host name resolution,
>> as opposed to printer name resolution, for example.
>> Source 'files' allows the user to configure host names in files, such as
>> /etc/hosts.
>> Since LDAP is not normally used to resolve hostnames, the default is set to
>> 'files'.
>> The change:
>>> 'LDAP': {
>>> 'default': 'files ldap',
>>> - 'host': 'files dns mdns',
>>> + 'host': 'files',
>>> 'printer': 'user files ldap',
>>> 'netgroup': 'ldap'},
>> The fix removes DNS/MDNS from sources to resolve hostnames, since there is
>> no DNS in this case. 'ldap' was not put in to replace
>> them, since LDAP isn't normally used to resolve host names. The user will
>> then either put host names into files like /etc/hosts
>> or manually tailor the configuration later.
>>
>> I'm almost done coding an enhancement allowing the user to combine LDAP with
>> NIS or DNS. For those cases, the database source for
>> host names will be:
>> for LDAP/DNS,
>> host files dns
>> for LDAP/NIS
>> host files nis
>>
>> These say, first look in files to resolve names, then if not found there,
>> look in DNS (or NIS).
>>
>> Thank you,
>> WIlliam
>>
>> On 06/13/11 06:59 PM, Darren Kenny wrote:
>>> On 13/06/2011 16:56, William Schumann wrote:
>>>> Darren,
>>>> Answering your question below:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/13/11 04:08 PM, Darren Kenny wrote:
>>>>> Hi William,
>>>>>
>>>>> Generally looks good, but I do have one question about the change in
>>>>> nameservice_info.py:
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -235,11 +239,11 @@
>>>>> 'default': 'files',
>>>>> 'host': 'files dns mdns',
>>>>> 'printer': 'user files'},
>>>>> 'LDAP': {
>>>>> 'default': 'files ldap',
>>>>> - 'host': 'files dns mdns',
>>>>> + 'host': 'files',
>>>>> 'printer': 'user files ldap',
>>>>> 'netgroup': 'ldap'},
>>>>> 'NIS': {
>>>>> 'default': 'files nis',
>>>>> 'printer': 'user files nis',
>>>>>
>>>>> Should this be:
>>>>>
>>>>> 'host: 'files ldap',
>>>>>
>>>>> as in /etc/nsswitch.ldap?
>>>> LDAP is normally used to resolve host names, so in the absence of other
>>>> name
>>>> servers, 'files' is the only database for host names.
>>> OK, maybe I'm mistaking the purpose of this line - but looking at the others
>>> it looks like this values is used if you select LDAP as the source for
>>> resolving hostnames?
>>>
>>> Is that not what this line means? If so, then should it not have 'files
>>> ldap'
>>> like the DNS one has 'files dns mdns' and the NIS one has 'files nis'...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Darren.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> William
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Darren.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13/06/2011 14:59, William Schumann wrote:
>>>>>> This CR covers a number of simple issues that could not be tested before
>>>>>> the
>>> 167 integration.
>>>>>> The install client supplies the required svc:/network/ldap/client
>>>>>> property
>>> config/search_base property.
>>>>>> UI defaults in search_base and proxy bind distinguished name taken from
>>> user's domain.
>>>>>> Allows special characters required in proxy bind distinguished name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scrolls domain name on input allowing up to 255 characters. Places input
>>> field for proxy bind distinguished name on separate line,
>>>>>> since it can be quite large.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does not echo proxy bind password and conceals password in summary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Update profile test
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~wmsch/bug-7054032/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> William
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