Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name]

[Maciej Mrozowski]

On Friday 11 of June 2010 09:24:45 Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Чтв, 10/06/2010 в 23:42 -0700, Alec Warner пишет:
> > > I don't agree with that, but just out of curiosity, is it possible to
> > > use a web interface? phpldapadmin or something
> >
> > The problem with phpldapadmin is that it potentially opens up LDAP to
> > the world.
>
> Require everybody to forward connection through ssh to get ldap web
> interface? It's not hard to setup such tunnel manually or e.g. use
> xinetd for automatic tunnel creation on request... Another option is to
> use https with ssl client side certificates). I think it's not hard for
> developers to generate certificates on dev.gentoo.org and import them
> into browsers.

I suppose simply making LDAP globally available (SSL only) is asking for 
trouble. In such case anyway one could choose his/her favourite LDAP client.

Anyway I think simple shell scripts for most common activities (devaway, 
change etc) would do.

I'm all for moving to LDAP every info that fits and it's possible. Maybe even 
things like Gentoo overlays access.

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regards
MM