The domainInfrastructure wiki page is helpful. The examples are great. It has enough information to understand how oVirt formats an LDAP filter string, for example, which is very important. The constant use of the word "domain" is confusing, though. People outside the Microsoft world don't know that Microsoft documentation uses three different definitions of domain, sometimes in the same document. Most people will probably just assume you mean an IANA domain. I've worked with LDAP for over ten years, and I read the oVirt domainInfrastructure page three or four times but I still couldn't figure out why it kept talking about domains and LDAP at the same time until I took a week of AD classes and studied a couple of O'Reilly AD books. For example, when the oVirt wiki talks about "root DSE for domain" it doesn't make sense to anyone who isn't already familiar with AD. A rootDSE describes the configuration of a DSA instance (LDAP server daemon) as defined in RFC4512 section 5.1, and doesn't have anything to do with domains. The word domain does not occur in RFC4512 or RFC2251 at all. The page doesn't explain why oVirt needs a domain and a root DSE to have any special relationship. ISPs load information for hundreds of IANA domains under a single root DSE and it's not a problem; I've done five domains in one DSA under one root DSE. If there was an oVirt wiki page called LDAP or DirectoryInfrastructure, that page could explain if domains really need to be part of oVirt, and if so which kind of domain, and then link the current domainInfrastructure page. Or it could link a separate page for each directory supported by oVirt, and the current domainInfrastructure page could become an activeDirectory page and retain all the AD-specific language. --Charlie On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Oved Ourfalli <ovedo@redhat.com> wrote:
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From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka@redhat.com> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:30:39 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt 3.1 and Samba4 AD
On 11/13/2012 09:40 PM, Charlie wrote:
I would like to help oVirt gain compatibility with standards-based services like OpenLDAP, but the code's in a language I haven't used and a version control system I haven't used and the wiki has no LDAP interaction design documents (other than the sources themselves) and I've got very limited free time, all of which makes it hard to contribute.
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We do have some wiki pages that can be useful to set up a development environment, like: http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Working_with_oVirt_Gerrit http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Building_oVirt_engine
Architecture page: http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Architecture
And specifically, there is a wiki page on the LDAP infrastructure, that can give a clue on what entities we have there, and how to work with them: http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/DomainInfrastructure
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