LDAP integration

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:22:31 +0200
Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> > On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:02:30 -0800
> > Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > > > I was just wondering. How many people here have given lots of
> > > > though about integrating FreeBSD configuration with LDAP. I've
> > > > just begun looking at it a lot more and was curious as to what
> > > > other people think in this area.
> > > 
> > > It would be more useful to have this discussion if you defined
> > > what you meant by "FreeBSD configuration" in more detail. You
> > > might also want to search the archives first, there is a lot of
> > > discussion about various proposals in this area, all of which
> > > end up getting shot down because they don't offer sufficient
> > > added value to justify the pain of the change.
> > 
> > I mean exactly that. Initially I have begun looking at rc.conf as
> > a logical starting point.
> > 
> > Initially I think seeing a rc.d stuck right in right after
> > NETWORKING would be very interesting to have. Right after
> > NETWORKING is finished, a program is kicked off that updates a rc
> > file that is then included after parsing rc.conf.
> > 
> > I am currently wondering if any one else working on this, before I
> > start digging to much into it. The only LDAP stuff I am finding
> > on this list has been recently in regards to integration of a
> > ldap nss module into the base system.
> 
> i realy don't know what this has to do with LDAP, but in our
> diskless environment, /etc/rc.initdiskless, has some coded added
> that based on info from DHCP will build a 'personalized' rc.conf
> (the DHCP info is loaded into kenv by boot).

Cool. I will look into that a bit more. Thanks for the heads up on
that.

> ...
> confpath=`kenv conf-path`
> if [ -n "$confpath" ] ; then
>     if [ "`expr $confpath : '\(.*\):'`" ] ; then
>         echo Mounting $confpath on /conf
>         mount_nfs $confpath /conf
>         chkerr $? "mount_nfs $confpath /conf"
>         to_umount="${to_umount} $confpath"
>     fi
> fi
> ...
> eval `kenv | sed -n 's/^rc\.//p'`
> rm -f /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local
> for fc in $conf0 $conf1 $conf2 $conf3 $conf4 $conf5 $conf6 $conf7
> $conf8 $conf9 rc.conf.$hostname
> do
>     ho=`expr $fc : '\(.*\):'`
>     fl=`expr $fc : '.*/\(.*\)'`
>     if [ "${ho}" != "" ]; then
>         mp=`expr $fc : '\(.*\)/.*'`
>         mount_nfs $mp /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1
>         if [ -f /mnt/$fl ]; then
>             echo "# from $fc /mnt/$fl" >> /etc/rc.conf
>             cat /mnt/$fl >> /etc/rc.conf
>         fi
>         umount /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1
>     elif [ -e /conf/$fc ] ; then
>         echo "# from /conf/$fc" >> /etc/rc.conf
>         cat /conf/$fc >> /etc/rc.conf
>     fi
> done