[Freeipa-devel] emerging standard for hosts/passwords policy/automount/netgroups in LDAP

[Dmitri Pal]

On 03/13/2014 04:40 AM, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> FYI I have come across following RFC drafts:
>
> (please start with the first one :-)
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-mapping-03.txt
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-passwd-02
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-policy-03.txt
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-netgroup-02
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-automounter-02
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bannister-dbis-hosts-04

This is a bad idea to have hosts in LDAP. We already discussed it couple 
years ago.

>
> I didn't study them in detail but it seems like an attempt to 
> standardize Directory User Agent (DUA) profiles for various things 
> like automounter etc.
>
> Maybe we can contact the author and coordinate/harmonize what possible.

+1

>
> At first glance automount spec seems incompatible with RFC2307bis 
> schema, maybe that is one of things we can discuss and try to solve.
>


-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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