On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 09:46 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:22 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >> Simo Sorce wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 17:33 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> >>>> Comments? Suggestions?
> >>>>
> >>> Sorry for the late reply.
> >>>
> >>> First of all, excellent write-up John, it is very comprehensive and lays
> >>> down things very clearly.
> >>>
> >>> I agree that using ipa:ipa for memcached and wsgi would be a better
> >>> proposition for us. Although we need to explore how this would affect
> >>> credential caches created by mod_auth_kerb and our ability to use them,
> >>> which is crucial*.
> >>
> >> The krb ccache will not be readable by ipa:ipa.
> >
> > I feared that, although maybe we can do some trick with default ACLs to
> > make them readable to the 'ipa' user.
> > Do we have the option to re-implement SPNEGO in python and stop using
> > mod_auth_kerb ?
> >
> > Simo.
> >
> 
> We last looked at this way back in early v1 so it may be possible now, 
> it wasn't then. This would be a long-term effort.

Yep, medium/long term.

> Whatever we do we definitely don't want 389-ds to be running as the same 
> user as the ipa framework. Breaking into the web server via our app 
> would mean filesystem access to the raw LDAP database.

Totally agree, ipa:ipa should only be used for wsgi/memcached at most.
Certainly not other services we currently have.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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