[Users] Adding LDAP server directly with its FQDN.

[Oved Ourfalli]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 2:46:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Adding LDAP server directly with its FQDN.
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
> > To: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, "Sharad Mishra"
> > <snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 2:50:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] Adding LDAP server directly with its FQDN.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> > > To: users at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 7:57:25 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] Adding LDAP server directly with its FQDN.
> > > 
> > > On 06/29/2012 11:14 PM, snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > >   Is there a way to directly add an LDAP server to ovirt?
> > > >   Currently
> > > >   I
> > > > run engine-manage-domains with -domain=<domain-name>. This
> > > > finds
> > > > all the
> > > > ldap servers in the domain. Can I skip this and just add the
> > > > one
> > > > I
> > > > want?
> > > > I have the fqdn of the ldap server.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards
> > > > Sharad Mishra
> > > > IBM
> > > 
> > > Hi Sharad,
> > > Currently - no such way.
> > > Bare in mind you need to provide also the user ID.
> > > In addition - it may be that not all DS providers hold
> > > information
> > > on
> > > the users in the same way, and we perform some normalization in
> > > order
> > > to
> > > store them at DB in the same format.
> > > However, I guess we can run this "Guid encoding" code at
> > > engine-manage-domains, and then, it will be possible to add the
> > > user
> > > (if
> > > you provide the baseDN FQDN) to the system.
> > > Feel free to suggest a patch ;)
> > > In addition, an idea that popped to my head - let's say you want
> > > to
> > > add
> > > 100 users this way - will you provide for every one of them the
> > > baseDN?
> > > Maybe we should be able to configure a fefault base DN per
> > > domain?
> > > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > We do have an entry in vdc_options called LdapServers.
> > It is a per-domain configuration, just like the other LDAP related
> > configuration options.
> > When looking for LDAP servers, the engine uses the ones in this
> > configuration. If empty, it goes to the DNS.
> > Currently the engine-manage-domains utility doesn't set this
> > option,
> > but if you would like to work with one LDAP server for testing
> > purposes, or as a workaround, then you can set it manually:
> > domain:1ldapserver1, domain2:ldapserver2....
> 
> Would that mean that we can skip all the DNS SRV records?
> 
Not the kerberos ones, only the LDAP ones.
And, it also currently supports only one LDAP server per domain (this entry was originally used in order to specify that the LDAP server is localhost. Instead of just writing an entry specifying whether the LDAP server is local or not, we did a more general configuration). It is no longer in use for that purpose, but the config entry is still there.

> > 
> > Note that it only supports one LDAP server per domain.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Oved
> > > 
> > > > 
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