Jonathan Barber wrote:
I'm having a look (again) at writing a couple of plugins, the
aspects
I'm interested in are:
1) Updating samba hashes when an entries userpassword is updated (both
through the password extop and LDAP replace/add)
This has already been done as part of the
freeipa.org project. It also
does Kerberos. I don't know how hard it would be to just use it for
Samba, but probably much easier than writing from scratch.
2) Automatically generating posixGroup memberUid attributes from
an entry of objectclass groupOfUniquenames and the DNs refered to
by the uniqueName attributes of the entry.
For the password updating, I've looked at the passwd_exop plugin
(out of curiosity, why is it not in the plugin directory heirarchy?),
It was not designed as a plugin. I don't know why.
and it'd be nice to piggyback on it, allowing the passwd_extop
plugin to
deal with determining whether or not the connection is secure,
generating a new password if required, and for my plugin not to change
the samba hash until the userPassword has been succesfully changed.
Obviously, I'd need to also implement a postop plugin to catch straight
modifies as well.
With some experimentation, it appears possible to have two plugins for
the same extop OID, but is there a way for the extop plugins to specify
order of operation (the PDF plugin manual suggests not on page 50, but
then later suggest alphabetical ordering may be possible,
That might work.
and later says
that SLAPI_PLUGIN_(START|CLOSE)_FN functions are ordered)?
This is different. The start/close functions have explicit dependencies
i.e. many plugins depend on the database, so the dependency mechanism
makes sure the database plugin is started before the plugins that depend
on the database. But this is _only_ for start/close functions, not for
general extop/preop/postop use.
Or, is it better to implement as a entry store plugin and look
modifications to the userpassword attribute (assuming that at that point
the etxop must have worked and the password isn't hashed at this point)?
The post op plugins don't seem to see operations of extops, is this
designed behaviour?
Yes. In the context of a plugin, the "op" in pre-op or post-op means
an
LDAP ADD, MODIFY, DELETE, or MODDN operation. Pre means before the
operation touches the database (i.e. for filtering) and post means after
the operation has completed the database operations (both success and
failure) - usually like a "trigger" in an SQL sense.
And extended operation may modify the database, but it will have to
explicitly handle any pre or post handling, or simply provide another
plugin to handle the pre/post actions, or write a plugin of type
"object" that can be an extop plugin and a pre-op and a post-op.
Assuming there is a way of wrapping the existing password-exop
plugin,
to generate the hashes I was thinking of taking the SMB hashing
algorithims from samba and wrapping them in a shamelessly stolen
pwdstorage type plugin and then using slapi_encode(). Is this sane?
For the posixGroup generation, I've prototyped the idea with a postop
computed attribute - which appears to work okay, but means that searches
for entries containing a particular memberUid doesn't work, i.e.:
$ ldapsearch -b "cn=test,o=base" memberuid
dn: cn=test,o=base
memberuid: foo
$ ldapsearch -b "cn=test,o=base" "(memberuid=foo)"
$
Looking at the cos plugin, it seems to use virtual attributes, and this
looks like a better approach. If so, is there any documentation on
virtual attributes and their interface apart from the code and the
vattrsp_template plugin (and the cos/roles/presence plugins)?
In order to support searches, you'll also have to provide an indexing
plugin, to create a virtual "index" for your virtual attribute. This is
what the Roles plugin does - roles is a virtual attribute provider that
provides the "nsRole" attribute - it also provides the ability to do
searches like this - (nsRole=cn=myrole,dc=example,dc=com)
See also the source code for the presence plugin.
What are good methods for triggering virtual attributes on an entry
(assuming that you don't want to apply it to all the entries): tag the
entries with a particular objectclass? Provide search filters in the
plugin config that define the objects?
It just depends. Any/all of these may be good for your particular
situation. Search filters give you more flexibility, but you will have
to make sure the attributes you use in your search filters are indexed.
Thanks for your assistance.