On 04/26/2010 09:33 PM, David O'Brien wrote:
Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
> There's no reason to change the manpage. The functionality is still
> present, and it's perfectly fine to use it. However, in RHEL6 it is not
> an interesting case, and thus should be removed from the deployment guide.
>
> The issue here is that, because of the elimination of InfoPipe from the
> roadmap, the SSSD-provided local users have no benefits over using the
> standard POSIX /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files (except for nested
> groups, but that's such a rare case that it's not worth discussing right
> now)
>
> The original plan for the local domain was so that we could carry
> additional information in the same data store as the user (such as
> locale preferences, face browser image, etc.). This additional
> functionality has been postponed indefinitely, so we should reduce
> confusion in the RHEL documentation and not bring it up.
>
>
ah, ok. I read "not an interesting case" as "we don't want to spend
time
on it now, and it's no longer available or supported". So, man pages
stay as-is, and I'll remove the very small section on Nested Groups.
Impact on MPGs? Is that another case of "still there but don't talk
about them in the Dep. Guide"?
thanks again
MPGs shouldn't be talked about in the context of SSSD. Some time ago, we
decided to make that an internal feature, rather than a configurable
one. So any backend that supports MPGs (LOCAL and IPA, currently) will
do so silently and without the end-user needing to know about them.
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