[SSSD] SSSD (another) wish-list

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Tue Nov 22 13:39:29 UTC 2011


On 11/22/2011 05:07 AM, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 01:46 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> On 11/21/2011 07:42 PM, Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems to me what you really need is an inventory management
>>> system. I’d suggest extending AD schemas to handle this is not
>>> practical. Probably the same for IPA, but I must admit I am not that
>>> familiar with it.
>>>
>>
>> Actually this is a very good point. I think that content management
>> system like Satellite is probably what you should look for.
> Understood, but we are looking for something not too complicated &
> possibly free - we are ready to accept that it is not 100% reliable.
> The beauty of using LDAP attributes is that it requires no special
> software to maintain and it is easily implementable.
>
> So despite its obvious disadvantages, I believe it would find its use
> in smaller networks.
>
> I am no expert over content management systems so if it (CMS) is on
> the IPA roadmap already, then fine, but if not, then something like
> this (ldap attrs) would be (maybe) a good starting point.

I am still not convinced. It seems that the package management tools are
much better equipped to do what you are looking for and they are also free.

>
> Ondrej
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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