On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhro...@redhat.com> wrote:
> You know, just this morning, I was thinking about enumeration. It > doesn't work for IPA views at all for example. It doesn't work for > trusted domains at all either (except for some limited support in AD > trusted domains that is very untested) > > I wonder if we could just remove enumeration from IPA and AD back > ends in some major release. Please don't do this. Enumeration is a very useful feature. It allows us to do things like this: $ getent passwd | grep -i lastname The equivalent ldapsearch command is much more tedious: $ ldapsearch -z 0 -E pr=2147483647/noprompt -o ldif-wrap=no -L -L -H 'ldap:///dc%3Dexample%2Cdc%3Dorg -Y GSSAPI -N -b "dc=example,dc=org" "(&(objectClass=user)(cn=*lastname*))" dn cn sAMAccountName More generically, enumeration is the way Unix/Linux has always worked. Even getting users to change from: grep -i lastname /etc/passwd To this: getent passwd | grep -i lastname ...has been a struggle. We also have various services that (unfortuantely) pre-load the passwd and group files at startup by enumerating them with getpwent_r() and getgrent_r(), instead of using the get*nam_r() and get*id_r() functions as-needed. These services break outright if enumeration is disabled. (Yes, these services are broken. Yes, they shouldn't do that. But our ability to fix them is extremely limited at best, because we don't control them.) Finally, we have many systems that cannot be joined to Active Directory (for policy reasons, not technical reasons). But we want to use the same passwd/group entries on those systems as returned by sssd on hosts that are joined to Active Directory. We do this by scraping the output of "getent -s sss passwd" and "getent -s sss group" and manually merging it into the local passwd and group files (respectively) on these hosts. > It's just a legacy feature, so those who need it can fall back to > the LDAP provider.. But the LDAP provider doesn't support ID mapping; only the AD provider does. And ID mapping is the main reason we use sssd. I'm not asking you to make enumeration the default. It shouldn't be; it should be something you only turn on if you need it, and you KNOW you need it. But if you need it, you NEED it. Please don't take it away. _______________________________________________ sssd-users mailing list sssd-users@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-users
