Fraser Tweedale via FreeIPA-devel wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:17:51AM -0400, Rob Crittenden via FreeIPA-devel 
> wrote:
>> Standa Laznicka via FreeIPA-devel wrote:
>>> Hello people of the freeipa-devel channel,
>>>
>>> Let me share a design that proposes a way of automating the way FreeIPA
>>> replicas would be promoted to become a CRL master. Since the
>>> configuration cannot be dynamically altered by modifying an entry in the
>>> LDAP database, the proposal is to create an ipa-advise extension that
>>> could handle this operation instead for now. Read all about it in the
>>> attachement.
>>>
>>
>> This makes sense to me.
>>
>> I wonder if we should reflect the current CRL master in LDAP somehow, as
>> a role perhaps. This way one could look to see whether one is assigned
>> or not.
>>
>> The downside is that this could easily get stale, for example if the CRL
>> master server was lost in some way. But it would provide more visibility
>> into which master is the CRL master and could be used to prevent/warn a
>> user if they try to set multiple.
>>
>> rob
>>
> Unless Dogtag is actually configuring itself based on this
> hypothetical LDAP configuration, then it's still easy for the Dogtag
> configuration to get out of sync with what we have recorded about
> the CRL master.

Absolutely right. I'm a bit torn if it is a good idea or not myself.

It would be a check on someone running the script on all masters though.

There is a risk of a false sense of security if no masters are
generating a CRL but then again, if your masters aren't generating a CRL
and you don't notice then you aren't using the CRL in the first place.

> There is a Dogtag ticket for moving CRL configuration into LDAP:
> https://pagure.io/dogtagpki/issue/1262.  But the work has not been
> scheduled.

Nice, good to know. Once agreed-upon this should be added to the design
page on the wiki.

rob
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