[Freeipa-devel] what do we want to show?

Pete Rowley prowley at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 18:59:51 UTC 2007


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Pete Rowley wrote:
>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> Currently ipa-finduser and ipa-findgroup display a fairly random set 
>>> of attributes.
>>>
>>> What do we want to show?
>>>
>>> I was thinking ala finger:
>>>
>>> username
>>> cn
>>> homeDirectory
>>> shell
>>> krbPrincipalName
>>>
>> I think this is fine as default
>>> But if the GUI is used we'll also have full address, phone, etc.
>>>
>> An option to show the rest would be good.
>>> cn
>>> description
>>> gidnumber
>>> members
>>>
>>> The thing about members is that it includes the DN of the member 
>>> which isn't particulary human-readable.
>>>
>>> I have a couple ideas about that:
>>>
>>> 1. Make membership an optional argument
>> Good idea I think.
>>> 2. Translate members into something more readable by looking up the 
>>> cn for each member (expensive).
>> Would be quite cheap if you search on memberof attribute - it's one 
>> search to get all you need.
>>
>
> What would that search look like?
(memberof=<dn of group>) and request any attributes you want from the 
entries.


-- 
Pete

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