Re: Interoperable junctions on Linux

["Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>]

----- "Simo Sorce" <simo@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> Well I have some knowledge in this field, and I do not find it very
> fiddly, but I may be biased as I have been working for the past 7
> years
> to make LDAP+Kerberos simple to manage within the FreeIPA project.
> Your requirement to set an objectclass on the base suffix is something
> I
> find particularly unappealing, and no other tool that I know of
> requires
> this (because it is unnecessary).

Yes.  Thank you.

> > 
> 
> I think you should allow the broadest possibilities of course, which
> is
> why I am picking on things like allowing SSAL/GSSAPI explicitly in
> the
> RFC language. Whether people will integrate into existing LDAP server
> or
> not remains to be seen, if we can avoid the need to add an objectlass
> on
> the root suffix I see that we can easily add this a standard feature
> for
> FreeIPA as well (we already provide automount data for example) and
> provide management tools in our framework around it.

I noted this point on a FedFS concall 2 years ago.  I dont understand why
not -permit- easy integration with existing LDAP infrastructure.


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