There are two reasons for the plugin framework:
1. To provide a way of doing manual/complex LDAP changes without having
to keep extending ldapupdate.py (like we did with managed entries).
2. Allows for better control of restarts.
There are two types of plugins, preop and postop. A preop plugin runs
before any file-based updates are loaded. A postop plugin runs after
all file-based updates are applied.
A preop plugin may update LDAP directly or craft update entries to be
applied with the file-based updates.
Either a preop or postop plugin may attempt to restart the dirsrv instance.
The instance is only restartable if ipa-ldap-updater is being executed
as root. A warning is printed if a restart is requested for a non-root
user.
Plugins are not executed by default. This is so we can use ldapupdate
to apply simple updates in commands like ipa-nis-manage.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1789https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1790https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2032
change default_logger_level to debug in configure_standard_logging
add new ipa_log_manager module, move log_mgr there, also export
root_logger from log_mgr.
change all log_manager imports to ipa_log_manager and change
log_manager.root_logger to root_logger.
add missing import for parse_log_level()
Make sure that when Directory Manager password is entered,
we directly do a simple bind instead of trying binding via GSSAPI.
Also capture ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS exception and provide nice
error message than crash.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1927
When getpass.getpass() function is interrupted via CTRL+D, EOFError
exception is thrown. Most of the install tools are not prepared for
this event and crash with this exception. Make sure that it is
handled properly and nice error message is printed.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1916
