On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> >> In some distant future version of FAS, I'd
> >> like to play with the idea of storing the data in LDAP while handling
> >> our group sponsorship system in postgres.
> >>
> >
> > Ick
> >
> heh :-)
>
> I think ricky's approach could work but it would need planning. The
> idea would be to increase the complexity of FAS but decrease the
> complexity for everything we deploy that needs authentication. We'd
> want to examine that assumption in the planning phase to make sure it's
> actually true for us.
>
> For instance, there was the thought that having cached credentials on
> our servers was preferable to what happens to when the LDAP server goes
> down. Still a concern?
>
> We currently mask a lot of information for the privacy policy, can we do
> that with LDAP? (Or just not put the information in there?)
>
> We let third parties (like the hosts to let packagers try building on
> ppc, x86_64, etc) use fas to get ssh keys. Would we let them connect to
> and get that information from the LDAP server instead?
>
> We let people use their normal accounts to get a subset of data for
> authenticating to their web apps while they're developing them. Would
> we enable the same setup with LDAP?
>
I figure we're still very much in the exploritory stage, we should get our
requirements together though. FAS going down is still a real concern, but
if we implement a hardware key system, like yubikey, we'll have a similar
requirement in that yubikey requires a yubiserver of some kind (or the AES
key on every server).
Normally there will need to be a prcedure to deal with such failures.
Who to contact, how they log it, what methods are used for
'all-things-failed' access (usually a one-time-password that is
changed afterwords), how to log actions and how to set things right
again. This is more of a person fix versus technological fix.
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