On 10/15/10 2:12 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote:
Hi Dev,
I'm really wondering if we should not remove the 'System' partition.
Good question ...
The only interesting piece of information we're taking from it is the admin
user, especially the its password.
Wouldn't be more interesting to store this information in the config partition?
Except the Admin user the other entries of that partition look like crap and
legacy from old versions.
The following configuration entries are no longer used:
- ou=configuration,ou=system
| - ou=interceptors,ou=configuration,ou=system
| - ou=partitions,ou=configuration,ou=system
| - ou=services,ou=configuration,ou=system
I don't know the role of this entry 'prefNodeName=sysPrefRoot,ou=system', if it
still has any role?
No idea. The ou=cnfiguration branch is probably dead wood.
The following entries are not very useful too:
- ou=groups,ou=system
| - cn=Administrators,ou=groups,ou=system
- ou=users,ou=system
Isn't is better that the user creates its users in its own partition?
Even our admin user is not in the 'ou=users' organizational unit...
I *think* the ou=users,ou=system are usefull for kerberos and triplesec.
As you can see, the only valid information in the whole partition is the
credentials of the admin (should we say default) user.
probably.
I really think this information should be placed in the configuration (we could
also allow the redefinition of the admin user DN).
It would allow the user to edit these settings without having to start the
server (at least) once.
WDYT?
I think we can remove the ou=system partition at this point, and use the
ou=config to store the informations related to the administrator.
So far, considering ou=system as a special partition is probably not
anymore necessary.
Note that, as Kiran said, this partition is used by a hell lot of tests,
so removing it will be costly.
If we remove it, I would suggest we restore the automatic creation of
the context entry : it's so painful to have to add it when we create a
partition that we should find a way to do that automatically.
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
