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From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck@redhat.com> To: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs@redhat.com> Cc: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand@redhat.com>, engine-devel@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:02:39 AM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Local Authentication Feature
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From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs@redhat.com> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck@redhat.com> Cc: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand@redhat.com>, engine-devel@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:37:10 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Local Authentication Feature
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From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck@redhat.com> To: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand@redhat.com> Cc: engine-devel@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:26:52 PM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Local Authentication Feature
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From: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand@redhat.com> To: engine-devel@ovirt.org Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 7:50:36 PM Subject: [Engine-devel] Local Authentication Feature
Hello,
I would like to propose a new feature that allows authentication using the local user database. The details are here:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Local_Authentication
And the proposed change is available for review here:
I appreciate feedback.
Thanks in advance, Juan Hernandez -- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid – C.I.F. B82657941 - Red Hat S.L.
Hi Juan, Very happy to see this one which actually closes an annoying gap! One thing which is missing is user management- add/remove/change users and groups. If we do not plan to handle it within ovirt, the design should state it and explain how user management should work.
Shouldn't this be the same as in case of external directory service? i.e - you manage user/group at the directory service, and then you "populate" engine with it (by adding permissions to users/groups or adding explicitly new users/groups to engine?)
Also, what happens when a user is removed from the local DB- will all references to him be removed? Groups?
IMHO the behavior in this case should be as in case of current LdapBroker.
This could be a decision but it's missing from the design. The diff I see from current supported directory servers are that they actually have their own management tools, which is not the case for local DB. Again, you may state that the various userXXX and groupXXX commandline utilities are the way to manage it, but this is lacking from the design.
Local user support is a feature we certainly need, but somehow ssh'ing into the node feels wrong. A local db is better than the (creative) ssh hack.
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