On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhro...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 06:38:23PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 04:41:10PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > with Alexander's help, I wrote up a design page about how SSSD should
>> > read Fleet Commander data from IPA and present them to the FC client
>> > component. The SSSD part is described here:
>> >     https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/FleetCommanderIntegration
>> > and the IPA part is here:
>> >     
>> > https://github.com/abbra/freeipa-desktop-profile/blob/master/plugin/Feature.mediawiki
>> >
>> > For convenience, I copied the SSSD wiki page below. Comments are welcome!
>> >
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >
>> > ==== Looking up the Fleet Commander profiles and storing the JSON profile 
>> > data ====
>> > Since the first implementation will only fetch rules that are linked to
>> > this host and the user in question, the SSSD's session provider will issue
>> > an LDAP search along these lines:
>> > {{{
>> >     
>> > (&(objectclass=ipadeskprofilerule)(memberHost=my_fqdn_or_my_host_group)(memberUser=user_login_or_group))
>> > }}}
>> >
>> > All host groups the IPA client is a member of must be included in the
>> > `memberHost` part of the filter. Additionally, all user groups must be
>> > included in the `memberUser` part of the filter. Since in most cases,
>> > the user's groups will be resolved during the login, we will only issue
>> > an initgroups request in case the user's initgroups are expired already
>> > to cover cases where the sessions provider was invoked separately.
>>
>> I wonder if it would be more efficient to read all profiles which apply
>> to the host in a single run store them in the cache and do the remaining
>> part of the processing locally? Iirc this is what we do with HBAC rules
>> and there might be a chance to reuse some of the HBAC code but just look
>> for objectclass ipadeskprofilerule instead of ipahbacrule?
>>
>> Since there are host and user categories mentioned on the server side
>> design page I guess the underlying objectclass is ipaAssociation and
>> because of this it makes even more sense to reuse as much of the HBAC
>> lookup code as possible.
>
> Yes, of course you are right, fetching the per-host data is almost always
> a good idea. I changed the wiki page:
>     
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/FleetCommanderIntegration?action=diff&version=3&old_version=1

Since I started working on this a few changes have been done in the
Design (and I've talked to Jakub on IRC about those all the time).
In case anyone is interested, here are the changes:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/FleetCommanderIntegration?action=diff&version=7&old_version=3

Best Regards,
--
Fabiano Fidêncio
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