On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:40:33PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote: > On 01/12/2015 03:18 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:17:46PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote: > >>On 01/12/2015 09:51 AM, Pavel Březina wrote: > >>>On 12/16/2014 02:26 PM, Pavel Březina wrote: > >>>>https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/DBusResponder > >>>I created a new design page to reduce size and increase readability in the > >>>original one. I would like to keep DBusResponder page mainly as a > >>>crossroad with links to other pages in the future so it is not swamped > >>>with too many details on everything. > >>> > >>>I will replace user and group design in DBusResponder with the following > >>>link if you agree: > >>> > >>>https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/DBusUsersAndGroups > >>> > >>>It should cover everything we agreed on. If not, please tell me and I will > >>>add it. > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>sssd-devel mailing list > >>>sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > >>>https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel > >>1) There is a difference between allowing a wild card in a string and > >>allowing it at the beginning or at end. > >>In the latter case you can use much fast searches such as "begins with" and > >>"ends with" or "contains" if you have *foo*. > >>I think it should be explicit whether we allow regex or not becuase an > >>asterisk in general would require regex. > >>I thought we said we want to avoid regex. > >> > >>2) In the min length configuration options please be explicit that we are > >>talking about non wild card characters in the string. > >I must have missed why do we have these options at all? The design page > >doesn't specify it either. Is it to avoid thrashing the LDAP server with > >searches too wide? > > Yes. It was in the discussion. We do not want user to provide one letter and > get tons of responses. > However we can also do a different thing, we can limit the number of results > returned and never return over some hard coded limit, for example, 300. With > the default 30.
OK, that makes total sense, but care must be taken to return a nice error string if the admin uses a shorter filter. _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
