freeipa/ipapython/README

This is a set of libraries common to IPA clients and servers though mostly
geared currently towards command-line tools.

A brief overview:

config.py - identify the IPA server domain and realm. It uses python-dns to
            try to detect this information first and will fall back to
            /etc/ipa/default.conf if that fails.

ipautil.py - helper functions

entity.py - entity is the main data type. User and Group extend this class
            (but don't add anything currently).

ipavalidate.py - basic data validation routines
Add a copy of the LICENSE and populate some README's 2008-01-23 09:30:18 -06:00			`This is a set of libraries common to IPA clients and servers though mostly`
			`geared currently towards command-line tools.`

			`A brief overview:`

Replace DNS client based on acutil with python-dns IPA client and server tool set used authconfig acutil module to for client DNS operations. This is not optimal DNS interface for several reasons: - does not provide native Python object oriented interface but but rather C-like interface based on functions and structures which is not easy to use and extend - acutil is not meant to be used by third parties besides authconfig and thus can break without notice Replace the acutil with python-dns package which has a feature rich interface for dealing with all different aspects of DNS including DNSSEC. The main target of this patch is to replace all uses of acutil DNS library with a use python-dns. In most cases, even though the larger parts of the code are changed, the actual functionality is changed only in the following cases: - redundant DNS checks were removed from verify_fqdn function in installutils to make the whole DNS check simpler and less error-prone. Logging was improves for the remaining checks - improved logging for ipa-client-install DNS discovery https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2730 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1837 2012-05-11 07:38:09 -05:00			`config.py - identify the IPA server domain and realm. It uses python-dns to`
Add a copy of the LICENSE and populate some README's 2008-01-23 09:30:18 -06:00			`try to detect this information first and will fall back to`
Replace /etc/ipa/ipa.conf with /etc/ipa/default.conf The new framework uses default.conf instead of ipa.conf. This is useful also because Apache uses a configuration file named ipa.conf. This wipes out the last vestiges of the old ipa.conf from v1. 2009-11-25 16:16:06 -06:00			`/etc/ipa/default.conf if that fails.`
Add a copy of the LICENSE and populate some README's 2008-01-23 09:30:18 -06:00
			`ipautil.py - helper functions`

			`entity.py - entity is the main data type. User and Group extend this class`
			`(but don't add anything currently).`

			`ipavalidate.py - basic data validation routines`