RFC: LDAP Configuration

RFC: LDAP Configuration

[Ratan Gupta]

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Hi All,

Regarding Git hub issue : https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3305

Per my analysis following are the desired/mandatory parameters which 
needs to be configured -

1) Global for all LDAP servers

LDAP certificate configuration(/assuming same certificate can be used 
for all the LDAP servers in the case of secure ldap/).

Certificate configuration would be done with separate activity.


2) Specific to each LDAP server

     a)LDAP server IP

     b)Secure v/s Non secure LDAP

     c)Search Base: Where the search should start on the ldap server

     d)Scope of the search: One level or search till the end of the tree.

Users would be allowed to configure multiple LDAP servers.


_*Methods to configure*_

Option 1) Define the D-Bus API which takes all these parameters and 
updates the configuration files accordingly.

/Pros: Not tied to a specific ldap client(sssd/openLDAP)/


Option 2) Upload the configuration file directly(/sssd.conf //&//ldap.conf/)

/Cons: Additional overhead of doing file parsing and more bad path 
validations than option 1)/

/In the option2 don't do any validation and copy the conf file but 
expecting user should validate the correctness of the conf file.
/

/Need opinion from the community members on this proposal on the methods 
to configure./

/Regards/

/Ratan Gupta
/


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