[Freeipa-devel] Unifying the PKI and IPA Directory Server instances

[Richard Megginson]

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> We had a brief discussion on unifying the PKI and IPA Directory
> Server instances. Here are my notes from it. Please fill out the
> details and correct me if I've mis-stated anything below.
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> Issues:
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Do IPA and PKI use different suffixes?

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>     1.
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> Both make changes to Config. One identified conflict is he
> configuration of the Uniqueness plugin

It may be easy to enhance this plugin and other plugins to allow different configuration per subtree.

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> PKI uses Directory Manager. This is insecure. Can it use a differen,
> limited admin?

Or use ldapi?  I don't think ldapjdk can use ldapi.

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> Index strategies are different

Use a union?  e.g. if ipa needs attribute "a" indexed for equality only, but PKI needs it indexed for presence and substring only, then we can just index it for eq, sub, and pres.

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> make sure we have a union of the required sets of plugins
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> PKI needs to set D.S. Default Name context

What is this?

>     6.
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> If PKI uses the IPA datastore for users, it needs to creat the user
> with all the right prerequisites (object class, defaults)

If both PKI and IPA use structural objectclasses, we may have to create corresponding auxiliary objectclasses so that you can mix-in both sets of objectclasses while having only one structural objectclass per entry.

>     7.
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> PKI puts users in groups using “member of” so that should still work
> for the IPA tree
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