[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] Password caching related patches

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon May 18 13:33:25 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:59 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> Simo Sorce schrieb:
> > The following set of patches is not strictly related but they are
> > somewhat interdependent.
> > 
> > Feel free to ack/nack and comment individually.
> > 
> > 0001 Fix the crypt functions.
> > - make them *not* use static buffers, that's just plain wrong
> > - fix indentation where possible
> > - fix naming so that exported functions do not have too generic names
> > that may conflict (name space)
> 
> ACK
> 
> > 
> > 0002 Prevents accepting a blank password
> > - I think we can all agree that allowing blank passwords is not a good
> > idea, however if someone feels strongly about allowing no password
> > logins we should probably make a patch that looks up the individual user
> > record and read an attribute where the specific user is allowed toi use
> > blank passwords (IMHO)
> > 
> 
> ACK
> 
> > 0003 Split ldap backend
> > - mostly so that each single file is easily digestible but also so that
> > in theory you can mix and match (ldap user + krb pwd or local user +
> > ldap pwd, etc...)
> > 
> 
> the changes from commit c051ec69a66f3d5c6ae611262ed639c31f93e88e are
> missing this means that offline support does not work
> 
> > 0004 Move password caching decision into backends
> > - this is so that backends can have better control (per user
> > caching/other more complex stuff)
> > 
> 
> see above
> 

Attached a new patch that replaces 0003.
0004 applies cleanly on top, so please ack or nack on its own value.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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