[SSSD] [PATCHES] Always store home directory expansions to sysdb

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 14:54:51 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:47:25PM +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> >This just needs to be documented well in the man pages. We need to say
> >that changing this option mandates invalidating the cache. Many options
> >do, I don't think this will be suprising for the users.
> yes, it is solution. but it will be confusing.
> We have how-to for configuring sudo in manual page sssd-sudo
> but nobody reads it. It will be the same issue.
> 
> I don't like adding unintuitive behaviuor to sssd; but on the other hand
> "homedir_substring" needn't be used very often.
> 
> BTW if the *only* use case for "storing home directory expansions into sysdb"
> is krb5 ccname template then it will be easier to do expansion of homedir in
> krb5 code.

I would prefer to hear more opinions on this topic. I personally prefer
to store the expansion to sysdb to make sure all responders read the
same data and there is one defined path to update and store the
expansions.



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