On 05/28/2015 11:00 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
On May 28, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Martin Kosek <mko...@redhat.com> wrote:
On 05/28/2015 07:10 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
On Mar 26, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Dmitri Pal <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/26/2015 03:19 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Martin Kosek <mko...@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/26/2015 07:37 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
Thanks everyone for the input.
I do agree that I don’t like the sound of option 1. I don’t want to be sending
CLI commands from a remote host. And option 3 sounds sounds a bit brittle to me.
2 sounds like the most solid option available right now. I like the fact that
there’s an existing/working API there. I’ll need to look into converting my
objects into json.
This area honestly seems like one of the weakest aspects of freeipa. There
really needs to be a way to push known person entities into the directory
easily.
There may be some disconnect, the JSONRPC/XMLRPC API is the way we still see as
an easy way to manipulate the entries (besides CLI and Web UI). In Python,
adding new user is that easy:
~~~
from ipalib import api
from ipalib import errors
api.bootstrap(context='cli')
api.finalize()
api.Backend.rpcclient.connect()
api.Command['user_add'](u'newuser', givenname=u'New', sn=u'User')
~~~
What way would you suggest to make it more conforming to your use case? Are you
suggesting REST interface doing the above or something else?
Oh, I think the JSON option is the best one currently available. But I do think
REST-ful service would be a good idea.
I would be willing to test option 4 if that is where the future is headed.
Ok, just note that this still means LDAP interface a need to talk in LDAP
protocol.
This may not be a bad thing if you’re using an ORM like Webobjects/EOF or
Cayenne since you can model those ldap entities and simply set their attributes
and insert. At a lower level JNDI will handle it. I personally prefer this over
building strings, sending commands, etc.
So this will be ready upstream within several weeks or so. Would you test it
once it it is available before the official upstream release?
Hi Dmitri - following up on this to see how progress is going on this project.
I am definitely still interested in testing this. In the meantime, I have been
pursuing http client calls posting json. And I have some questions I need to
pursue on that as well. Should I take this to freeipa-devel?
Hello Timothy,
I am sorry we did not update this thread, but in the end we decided not to
invest in the REST interface ourselves at this moment (read - FreeIPA 4.2), but
rather work on stabilizing and documenting current JSON-RPC API we have as we
believe the API is easily usable from major languages even though it is not
RESTy. To prove our point, we need good documentation of it and examples for
the major languages.
This is the proposal of what shall be done in FreeIPA 4.2 that I sent to
freeipa-devel:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2015-April/msg00061.html
I hope the way we go for the next release is acceptable for you. In the mean
time, if you have specific questions on calling JSON from your programs, both
freeipa-users and freeipa-devel may be suitable, depending on how deep you want
to go in the code...
HTH,
Martin
Thanks Martin:
OK, just to verify - The staging approach (Dmitri spoke about) of inserting
records into a staged user schema and having them inserted via a cron job is
now off for near releases. I am anxious to see that happen.
Ah, looks I misread the thread branches about what was actually promised. The
FreeIPA User Life Cycle feature (staging users can be added via LDAP and later
activated) *is* going to FreeIPA 4.2 and is actually mostly implemented, it
will be part of FreeIPA 4.2 Alpha release, so you can try it out then.
This is the upstream tracker:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3813
But, I am working on a java http client (apache httpclient +
jaas/Krb5LoginModule) that posts json to the ipaserver. However, I am having
some difficulty with kerberos negotiation and I should probably start a
separate thread on that - either here or on freeipa-devel.
Ok. Feel free to ask. I do not expect too big problems with JSON&Kerberos.
AFAIK, you do not need to even need to use JSON calls and Kerberos at the same
time. With FreeIPA, you can simply login to the API via HTTPS+SPNEGO, get a
session code and use that for HTTPS JSON API calls (this helps if a JSON
library cannot do Kerberos auth out of the box).
Martin
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