On 04/26/2010 09:33 PM, David O'Brien wrote: > Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> >> There's no reason to change the manpage. The functionality is still >> present, and it's perfectly fine to use it. However, in RHEL6 it is not >> an interesting case, and thus should be removed from the deployment guide. >> >> The issue here is that, because of the elimination of InfoPipe from the >> roadmap, the SSSD-provided local users have no benefits over using the >> standard POSIX /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files (except for nested >> groups, but that's such a rare case that it's not worth discussing right >> now) >> >> The original plan for the local domain was so that we could carry >> additional information in the same data store as the user (such as >> locale preferences, face browser image, etc.). This additional >> functionality has been postponed indefinitely, so we should reduce >> confusion in the RHEL documentation and not bring it up. >> >> > ah, ok. I read "not an interesting case" as "we don't want to spend time > on it now, and it's no longer available or supported". So, man pages > stay as-is, and I'll remove the very small section on Nested Groups. > Impact on MPGs? Is that another case of "still there but don't talk > about them in the Dep. Guide"? > > thanks again >
MPGs shouldn't be talked about in the context of SSSD. Some time ago, we decided to make that an internal feature, rather than a configurable one. So any backend that supports MPGs (LOCAL and IPA, currently) will do so silently and without the end-user needing to know about them. -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
