Ruminations on realmd

Jan Safranek jsafrane at redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 07:49:54 UTC 2014


On 06/13/2014 04:01 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> First of all, I think that if JoinDomain() reports that packages need
> to be installed, it should implicitly invoke the Software provider and
> install them; thus only returning a failure to the caller if the
> packages are unavailable for installation.

Automatic installation of any packages is dangerous and should be IMO
explicitly requested by system admin. I'd rather solve this on client
side, where a script could ask 'Do you want to install following
packages: ipa-client, oddjob, oddjob-mkhomedir [Y/n]?'

The same for DNS setting.

Jan.


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