[SSSD] [PATCH] Add an option to disable GC lookups
Sumit Bose
sbose at redhat.com
Thu Dec 19 11:10:43 UTC 2013
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:10:08AM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:15:14PM +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we're debating what is the right approach to GC lookups by default, but
> > for the 1.11.3 release, we should offer an option to fall back from GC
> > to LDAP. The attached patches do that.
> >
> > [PATCH 1/3] AD: Add a utility function to create list of connections
> > ad_id.c and ad_access.c used the same block of code. With the upcoming
> > option to disable GC lookups, we should unify the code in a function to
> > avoid breaking one of the code paths.
> >
> > Defaulting to GC for access provider is safe, as you can see in
> > ad_access.c we retry on any denial against the GC to make sure we don't
> > miss an attribute from LDAP.
> >
> > [PATCH 2/3] AD: Add a new option to turn off GC lookups
> > Adds the option.
> >
> > [PATCH 3/3] AD: Enable fallback to LDAP of trusted domain
> > Since we have the LDAP port of a trusted AD GC always available now, we
> > can always perform a fallback.
> >
> > I'm fine with leaving the patch out of 1.11.3 if the other developers
> > think we should stricly limit ourselves to what we've agreed on.
>
> Hi,
>
> the previous patches applied cleanly on origin/master but I think in
> upstream, they should come after Sumit's local domain patches, so I
> rebased them on top of those.
>
> New patches are attached.
Patches look good and passed my basic testing. I didn't see any
connection to the GC port if 'ad_enable_gc = False' was set. ACK
bye,
Sumit
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