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John Dennis 94d457e83c Use DN objects instead of strings
* Convert every string specifying a DN into a DN object

* Every place a dn was manipulated in some fashion it was replaced by
  the use of DN operators

* Add new DNParam parameter type for parameters which are DN's

* DN objects are used 100% of the time throughout the entire data
  pipeline whenever something is logically a dn.

* Many classes now enforce DN usage for their attributes which are
  dn's. This is implmented via ipautil.dn_attribute_property(). The
  only permitted types for a class attribute specified to be a DN are
  either None or a DN object.

* Require that every place a dn is used it must be a DN object.
  This translates into lot of::

    assert isinstance(dn, DN)

  sprinkled through out the code. Maintaining these asserts is
  valuable to preserve DN type enforcement. The asserts can be
  disabled in production.

  The goal of 100% DN usage 100% of the time has been realized, these
  asserts are meant to preserve that.

  The asserts also proved valuable in detecting functions which did
  not obey their function signatures, such as the baseldap pre and
  post callbacks.

* Moved ipalib.dn to ipapython.dn because DN class is shared with all
  components, not just the server which uses ipalib.

* All API's now accept DN's natively, no need to convert to str (or
  unicode).

* Removed ipalib.encoder and encode/decode decorators. Type conversion
  is now explicitly performed in each IPASimpleLDAPObject method which
  emulates a ldap.SimpleLDAPObject method.

* Entity & Entry classes now utilize DN's

* Removed __getattr__ in Entity & Entity clases. There were two
  problems with it. It presented synthetic Python object attributes
  based on the current LDAP data it contained. There is no way to
  validate synthetic attributes using code checkers, you can't search
  the code to find LDAP attribute accesses (because synthetic
  attriutes look like Python attributes instead of LDAP data) and
  error handling is circumscribed. Secondly __getattr__ was hiding
  Python internal methods which broke class semantics.

* Replace use of methods inherited from ldap.SimpleLDAPObject via
  IPAdmin class with IPAdmin methods. Directly using inherited methods
  was causing us to bypass IPA logic. Mostly this meant replacing the
  use of search_s() with getEntry() or getList(). Similarly direct
  access of the LDAP data in classes using IPAdmin were replaced with
  calls to getValue() or getValues().

* Objects returned by ldap2.find_entries() are now compatible with
  either the python-ldap access methodology or the Entity/Entry access
  methodology.

* All ldap operations now funnel through the common
  IPASimpleLDAPObject giving us a single location where we interface
  to python-ldap and perform conversions.

* The above 4 modifications means we've greatly reduced the
  proliferation of multiple inconsistent ways to perform LDAP
  operations. We are well on the way to having a single API in IPA for
  doing LDAP (a long range goal).

* All certificate subject bases are now DN's

* DN objects were enhanced thusly:
  - find, rfind, index, rindex, replace and insert methods were added
  - AVA, RDN and DN classes were refactored in immutable and mutable
    variants, the mutable variants are EditableAVA, EditableRDN and
    EditableDN. By default we use the immutable variants preserving
    important semantics. To edit a DN cast it to an EditableDN and
    cast it back to DN when done editing. These issues are fully
    described in other documentation.
  - first_key_match was removed
  - DN equalty comparison permits comparison to a basestring

* Fixed ldapupdate to work with DN's. This work included:
  - Enhance test_updates.py to do more checking after applying
    update. Add test for update_from_dict(). Convert code to use
    unittest classes.
  - Consolidated duplicate code.
  - Moved code which should have been in the class into the class.
  - Fix the handling of the 'deleteentry' update action. It's no longer
    necessary to supply fake attributes to make it work. Detect case
    where subsequent update applies a change to entry previously marked
    for deletetion. General clean-up and simplification of the
    'deleteentry' logic.
  - Rewrote a couple of functions to be clearer and more Pythonic.
  - Added documentation on the data structure being used.
  - Simplfy the use of update_from_dict()

* Removed all usage of get_schema() which was being called prior to
  accessing the .schema attribute of an object. If a class is using
  internal lazy loading as an optimization it's not right to require
  users of the interface to be aware of internal
  optimization's. schema is now a property and when the schema
  property is accessed it calls a private internal method to perform
  the lazy loading.

* Added SchemaCache class to cache the schema's from individual
  servers. This was done because of the observation we talk to
  different LDAP servers, each of which may have it's own
  schema. Previously we globally cached the schema from the first
  server we connected to and returned that schema in all contexts. The
  cache includes controls to invalidate it thus forcing a schema
  refresh.

* Schema caching is now senstive to the run time context. During
  install and upgrade the schema can change leading to errors due to
  out-of-date cached schema. The schema cache is refreshed in these
  contexts.

* We are aware of the LDAP syntax of all LDAP attributes. Every
  attribute returned from an LDAP operation is passed through a
  central table look-up based on it's LDAP syntax. The table key is
  the LDAP syntax it's value is a Python callable that returns a
  Python object matching the LDAP syntax. There are a handful of LDAP
  attributes whose syntax is historically incorrect
  (e.g. DistguishedNames that are defined as DirectoryStrings). The
  table driven conversion mechanism is augmented with a table of
  hard coded exceptions.

  Currently only the following conversions occur via the table:

  - dn's are converted to DN objects

  - binary objects are converted to Python str objects (IPA
    convention).

  - everything else is converted to unicode using UTF-8 decoding (IPA
    convention).

  However, now that the table driven conversion mechanism is in place
  it would be trivial to do things such as converting attributes
  which have LDAP integer syntax into a Python integer, etc.

* Expected values in the unit tests which are a DN no longer need to
  use lambda expressions to promote the returned value to a DN for
  equality comparison. The return value is automatically promoted to
  a DN. The lambda expressions have been removed making the code much
  simpler and easier to read.

* Add class level logging to a number of classes which did not support
  logging, less need for use of root_logger.

* Remove ipaserver/conn.py, it was unused.

* Consolidated duplicate code wherever it was found.

* Fixed many places that used string concatenation to form a new
  string rather than string formatting operators. This is necessary
  because string formatting converts it's arguments to a string prior
  to building the result string. You can't concatenate a string and a
  non-string.

* Simplify logic in rename_managed plugin. Use DN operators to edit
  dn's.

* The live version of ipa-ldap-updater did not generate a log file.
  The offline version did, now both do.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1670
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1671
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1672
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1673
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1674
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1392
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2872
2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
.tx Add Transifex tx client configuration file 2011-03-07 16:05:33 -05:00
checks Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
contrib Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
daemons Add PAC filtering 2012-08-02 11:28:19 -04:00
doc Replace float with Decimal 2012-01-20 08:13:44 +01:00
init Disable false pylint error in freeipa-systemd-upgrade 2012-02-15 00:26:18 -05:00
install Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
ipa-client Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
ipalib Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
ipapython Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
ipaserver Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
selinux Use certmonger to renew CA subsystem certificates 2012-07-30 13:39:08 +02:00
tests Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
util Move code into common krb5 utils 2012-07-30 10:31:47 -04:00
.bzrignore Added top-level tests/ package that will contain all unit tests 2008-10-07 20:36:44 -06:00
.gitignore Replace broken i18n shell test with Python test 2012-03-26 20:29:26 -04:00
API.txt Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
autogen.sh build tweaks - use automake's foreign mode, avoid creating empty files to satisfy gnu mode - run autoreconf -f to ensure that everything matches 2010-11-29 11:39:55 -05:00
BUILD.txt Rename ipa.spec.in to freeipa.spec.in in BUILD.txt. 2011-02-10 17:52:43 -05:00
Contributors.txt Typo fixes 2012-06-25 21:35:11 -04:00
COPYING Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
freeipa.spec.in Bump bind-dyndb-ldap version for F18 2012-08-02 17:22:19 +02:00
ipa Execute /usr/bin/python directly instead of /usr/bin/env python 2011-01-14 16:27:48 -05:00
ipa-compliance.cron Add support for tracking and counting entitlements 2011-02-02 10:00:38 -05:00
ipa.1 Don't set delegation flag in client, we're using S4U2Proxy now 2012-02-15 17:08:33 +01:00
lite-server.py Tweak the session auth to reflect developer consensus. 2012-02-27 05:54:29 -05:00
make-doc This patch removes the existing UI functionality, as a prep for adding the Javascript based ui. 2010-07-29 10:44:56 -04:00
make-lint Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
make-test Pass make-test arguments through to Nose 2012-04-11 22:20:07 -04:00
make-testcert Use DN objects instead of strings 2012-08-12 16:23:24 -04:00
makeapi Redo boolean value encoding. 2012-05-09 09:43:35 +02:00
Makefile Fix python Requires in Fedora 17 build 2012-05-15 10:43:39 +02:00
MANIFEST.in Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
README Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
setup-client.py Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
setup.py Add plugin framework to LDAP updates. 2011-11-22 23:57:10 -05:00
TODO Parse comma-separated lists of values in all parameter types. This can be enabled for a specific parameter by setting the "csv" option to True. 2011-11-30 17:08:35 +01:00
VERSION Add --{set,add,del}attr options to commands which are missing them. 2012-08-03 10:18:30 +02:00
version.m4.in Mass tree reorganization for IPAv2. To view previous history of files use: 2009-02-03 15:27:14 -05:00

                               IPA Server

  What is it?
  -----------

  For efficiency, compliance and risk mitigation, organizations need to
  centrally manage and correlate vital security information including:

    * Identity (machine, user, virtual machines, groups, authentication
      credentials)
    * Policy (configuration settings, access control information)
    * Audit (events, logs, analysis thereof) 

  Since these are not new problems. there exist many approaches and
  products focused on addressing them. However, these tend to have the
  following weaknesses:

    * Focus on solving identity management across the enterprise has meant
      less focus on policy and audit.
    * Vendor focus on Web identity management problems has meant less well
      developed solutions for central management of the Linux and Unix
      world's vital security info. Organizations are forced to maintain
      a hodgepodge of internal and proprietary solutions at high TCO.
    * Proprietary security products don't easily provide access to the
      vital security information they collect or manage. This makes it
      difficult to synchronize and analyze effectively. 

  The Latest Version
  ------------------

  Details of the latest version can be found on the IPA server project
  page under <http://www.freeipa.org/>.

  Documentation
  -------------

  The most up-to-date documentation can be found at
  <http://freeipa.org/page/Documentation/>.

  Quick Start
  -----------

  To get started quickly, start here:
  <https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/wiki/QuickStartGuide>

  Licensing
  ---------

  Please see the file called COPYING.

  Contacts
  --------

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     * If you have a bug report please submit it at:
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     * If you want to participate in actively developing IPA please
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