[SSSD] Design Discussion: Active Directory DNS updates
Simo Sorce
simo at redhat.com
Mon Mar 18 14:27:13 UTC 2013
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 15:09 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> 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.
I think it should a generic provider and AD and IPA should just have
different defaults, like with many other things.
> > > 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?
Probably the right way to go, yeah.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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