On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:01:44AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 17:52 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have created a wiki page summarizing my design proposal on integrating > > SSSD with automounter: > > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/AutofsIntegration > > > > Feedback is much appreciated - a reply to this email would probably work > > best. The target of this work is 1.8 > > Thanks for writing this summary, it's excellent. > There's not much I have to say about it because it is already quite > thorough. > > One thing I dislike about the discussion, and while I let it pass in > bugs and mailing list discussions, I think it is wrong to put it in > public design documents. The statement "autofs abuses the nsswitch.conf > configuration file" I find a little offensive. autofs uses that > configuration file and parses only the "automount" entry using the same > semantic behavior as nss, so the word "abuse" is wrong and a little rude > IMHO.
I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to offend you and perhaps abuse was a strong word. I've changed the design docs. That said, I'm still not convinced that it is a good idea to use another application's config file. My main concern is that users often mistakenly think that there is a standard glibc interface defined. Also, when the shared config file changes (not that it's likely that nsswitch would change drastically), you're in trouble -- for instance, sudo suffered recently when Fedora changed from using ldap.conf to nslcd.conf > > In the section "The LDAP schema used by autofs" which talks about schema > it is probably worth mentioning the difficulty with the cn attribute > being case insensitive. That introduces problems because key names > (essentially directory names) are case sensitive and I believe that is > the main reason RFC2307bis (as it relates to autofs) was adopted. > Good point, I've included that in the design page. _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel