On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:08:26PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote: > On 02/08/2013 02:10 PM, Sumit Bose wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:23:25PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote: > >> On 02/06/2013 11:13 AM, Sumit Bose wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >> So far makes sense. > >> Who are the potential consumers of the library other than the utility? > >> Is it CIFS utils? Should we reach out to the CIFS community for the > >> follow up integration? > > yes, CIFS utils will use it, but we will provided the plugin as part of > > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1534 . > > Does the design of the plugin belong to the same page? I suspect yes. > Please add a section about it.
The plugin has a separate design page https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/IntegrateSSSDWithCIFSClient I will finish the page when this design page is approved. > > > >> Any other consumers? Desktop? > > If all is in place (global catalog lookup, support for trusted domains) > > FreeIPA will used it instead of winbind. > > Yeah, I continue to forget that IPA grew a dependency on winbind for this. > Yes sure this makes perfect sense to drap the dependency and use SSSD > and its interface. > Please then open a ticket for switching IPA to use this interface. Will do. > Should we have design for this switch to be covered on the same design page? No, it should be a separate page on the FreeIPA trac. > > However I wonder whether this interface should follow the same > architecture as we have for other components. I.e.: > * thin client lib is used by the app > * this lib talks to responder over local socket > * responder deals with getting data from cache or triggering provider > asynchronously. > It seems that this architecture is somewhat implied. I sort of figured > it our by rereading the design couple times. > But it requires a bit of knowledge of prior art. Can this part be clarified? I added a sentence about it. > May be a diagram would be helpful? > A draft one is attached. Thank you, I added it to the page. bye, Sumit _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel