Allow a provisioning system to define a class/tag/template for the user/host entry it provisions so that IPA can automatically create group membership structure and in future do other automatic operations.
More details can be found on the design page. http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/Integration_with_a_provisioning_systems
The first step will be to add userClass attributeType for hosts. The attribute will be added in a MAY list of current objectClass ipaHost.
userClass
ipaHost
A follow-up ticket was opened for second phase of this effort: #3588. UI ticket: #3590.
Changing the scope of the ticket as discussed in freeipa-devel mail thread.
attachment freeipa-mkosek-402-add-userclass-attribute-for-hosts.patch
Patch freeipa-mkosek-402-add-userclass-attribute-for-hosts.patch sent for review
Ticket has been cloned to Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955695
master: 5af2e17
ipa-3-1: 174a892
Metadata Update from @dpal: - Issue assigned to mkosek - Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 3.2 - 2013/04-05 (GA)
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