[Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "lofyer" <lofyer at gmail.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:07:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?
> 
> On 2013/8/24 15:56, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "lofyer" <lofyer at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 10:47:21 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?
> >>
> >> On 2013/8/24 15:46, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "lofyer" <lofyer at gmail.com>
> >>>> To: users at ovirt.org
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 10:36:12 AM
> >>>> Subject: [Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned in 3.3?
> >>>> If not, what should I do to use it?
> >>> Question is unclear.
> >>>
> >>> What do you call "Local Authentication", after setup can't you login
> >>> using
> >>> admin user?
> >> Sorry for that.
> >> I mean, use users in /etc/passwd to login.
> >>
> > I never knew this is was an option.
> >
> > Or you mean something new that was planned somewhere?
> >
> > I am against of using native authentication for applications, as it enables
> > more privileges that users should have.
> >
> > The proper way to do that is to use directory services, such as LDAP and
> > integrate the nss of system and application to use that directory.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alon
> I saw this from**http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Local_Authentication%E2%80%8E
> So I thought it would be available now..
> 
> It seems that I have to use ldap now.
> 

In future you will be able to write plugin for authentication and authorization to do whatever you like.

This is still work in progress as far as I can see[1].

Alon

[1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:ldap_independence,n,z