[SSSD] Design Discussion: Active Directory DNS updates

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Mon Mar 18 14:09:50 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:29:48AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:46 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > 
> > I'm all for generic shared code, but then it would sound like even
> > LDAP
> > provider for instance supports the dynamic updates..
> 
> This would be a positive feature imo.
> 

Yes, but I was trying to say that given their provider-agnostic names,
the options might confuse the user into setting them in an LDAP provider
and expeciting them to work, while in reality only AD and IPA would be
implemented.

> > also the ipa_
> > options are already there and we should support them anyway. 
> 
> Yes but that is easy we can alias the old configuration options onto the
> new ones for the IPA backend.

OK, what would you suggest would be documented in manpages, then? Only
the new options with IPA manpage also carrying a note that also the old
options are supported for backwards compatibility?



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