Bug 527500

Summary:	Use proper attribute names for plugin parameters
Product:	[Retired] 389	Reporter:	Endi Sukma Dewata <edewata>
Component:	Directory Server	Assignee:	Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version:	1.2.6	CC:	benl, jgalipea, nhosoi, nkinder, rmeggins
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Description Endi Sukma Dewata 2009-10-06 16:54:28 UTC

Currently some DS plugins including refint, pass through auth, 7-bit, and attribute uniqueness still use the nsslapd-pluginArgN attributes to specify the parameters. For example:

dn: cn=referential integrity postoperation,cn=plugins,cn=config
nsslapd-pluginArg0: 0
nsslapd-pluginArg1: %log_dir%/referint
nsslapd-pluginArg2: 0
nsslapd-pluginArg3: member
nsslapd-pluginArg4: uniquemember
nsslapd-pluginArg5: owner
nsslapd-pluginArg6: seeAlso

Suppose we need to add/delete the parameters during instance creation, we have to hard-code the attribute names in the LDIF modification file.

dn: cn=referential integrity postoperation,cn=plugins,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: nsslapd-pluginArg7
nsslapd-pluginArg7: manager
-

While this is working just fine, if the number of default parameters is changed (e.g. more parameters added), the LDIF modification file has to be changed too to avoid conflicts.

A better solution is to use proper attribute names for the parameters:

dn: cn=referential integrity postoperation,cn=plugins,cn=config
referint-delay: 0
referint-logFileName: %log_dir%/referint
referint-logChanges: 0
referint-attribute: member
referint-attribute: uniquemember
referint-attribute: owner
referint-attribute: seeAlso

This way the LDIF modification file can be specified as follows:

dn: cn=referential integrity postoperation,cn=plugins,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: referint-attribute
referint-attribute: manager
-

If the default parameters are changed the LDIF modification file doesn't have to change.

The old style using nsslapd-pluginArgN should continue to be supported for backward compatibility.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 13:19:05 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping