[SSSD] [PATCH] CIFS idmap Plugin using SSSD

Benjamin Franzke benjaminfranzke at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 7 10:22:13 UTC 2013


2013/10/7 Sumit Bose <sbose at redhat.com>

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:57:07PM +0200, Benjamin Franzke wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > this is really great, thank you very much for the contribution! As a
> > > matter of fact, we've been planning on delivering the CIFS plugin as
> > > part of the next release:
> > > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1534
> > >
> > > Have you found the design page we created?
> > >
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/IntegrateSSSDWithCIFSClient
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I've read those pages before writing the plugin..
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Mostly the work on our side was done by Sumit Bose (I've CC-ed him). I
> > > would propose to get in touch with him to avoid duplicating some
> effort.
> > >
> > Unfortunately Sumit is in Germany and there is a holiday so he won't be
> > > available until Monday.
> > >
> >
> > > In general, I would suggest to merge this code into the SSSD tree if
> you
> > > wouldn't mind. I think it would makes sense to have the code in the
> same
> > > repo as the ID mapping library.
> > >
> >
> > I'd really appreciate having it integrated in sssd tree,
> > to have centralized maintainance and adoption by distributions..
>
> Thanks a lot for the patch. I would suggest to put your code into
> src/lib/cifs_idmap_sss/ and modify SSSD's Makefile.am to build the
> plugin. Would you like to do the integration and send the result for
> review to this list again?
>

I'd like to do that integration, will send a patch..


> About the well-know SIDs. They should not be handled inside the plugin
> but by SSSD itself. If you are interested in adding them I'd be happy to
> help you how to start (if my help is needed at all :-).
>

Yup, sounds better to handle the SIDs by SSSD core. I'd like to try..
I'll see whether time permits me to do that soon.. (doing this as a part of
my thesis)



>
> bye,
> Sumit
>
> >
> >
> > > Thanks again for the contribution, much appreciated!
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