[SSSD] local vs LOCAL?

David O'Brien davido at redhat.com
Thu Nov 5 01:23:47 UTC 2009


Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Well, I'd prefer to get away from that terminology entirely. Could we
> use "the local SSSD domain database" here instead?
> 
> We really want to get away from the expectation that the
> provider=local domain is named LOCAL. (In the future, we may have it
> default to the local machine's hostname, similar to how Windows
> distinguishes local users vs. network users.

ok, I wasn't aware you were trying to get away from that naming 
convention. I can refer to it as you suggest, and if it does later adopt 
the machine's hostname it'll be a simple matter to modify the doc, with 
no name changes (i.e., s/LOCAL/<hostname>/ to worry about.

cheers
> 
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:07 PM, "David O'Brien" <davido at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jakub Hrozek wrote:
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>>> On 11/04/2009 06:17 AM, David O'Brien wrote:
>>>> Should I be upper- or lower-casing "local" in the doc, or doesn't it
>>>> matter? It seems to be spread evenly both ways in the wiki, and
>>>> I'd like
>>>> to standardize.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>> Currently, the domain that stores the local users can be called
>>> anyway
>>> you like it just has to specify "id_provider = local".
>>>
>>> The confusion probably originates from the fact that in old
>>> versions of
>>> SSSD, there was no "id_provider = local" setting available and we
>>> used
>>> to special-case this domain by the name "LOCAL". For this historical
>>> reason, it is still called LOCAL in the examples on the wiki and the
>>> example config, but there is no hard rule.
>>>
>>>    Jakub
>> ok, thanks.
>>
>> For clarity, I'd like to use LOCAL in the docs, to avoid possible
>> confusion with any other local databases by writing things like "this
>> info is kept in the local database". Using "LOCAL" will make sure we
>> all
>> know what we're referring to.
>>
>> Any concerns please let me know.
>>
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