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That's the general area I was going to head with the Active Directory backend I'm hacking on. Chris Hoge of UOregon presented today (@ OSCON) on a local keystone hack that they did to enable LDAP AuthN + a fail back to SQL based system for their scientific computing cluster - follows a very similar model. 

-joe

On Jul 17, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
> +1 The corporate LDAP should be read-only for a source of user, roles and
> attributes. Updating the corporate LDAP is not an option in many
> environments which can significantly benefit from the structured directory
> information available.
> 
> Thus, at minimum, allow a r/o LDAP and local DB store for any openstack
> specific information that needs updating.
> 
> Tim
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf
>> Of Ryan Lane
>> Sent: 17 July 2012 20:43
>> To: Adam Young
>> Cc: Joseph Heck; openstack
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Keystone] Quotas: LDAP Help
>> 
>>> I haven't been thinking about quotas, so bear with me here. A few
>> thoughts:
>>> 
>>> Certain deployments might not be able to touch the LDAP backend.  I am
>>> thinking specifically where there is a corporate AD/LDAP server.  I
>>> tried to keep the scheme dependency simple enough that it could be
>>> layered onto a read-only scenario.  If we put quotas into LDAP,  it
>>> might break on those deployments.
>>> 
>> 
>> Many, many deployments won't be able to. Applications should generally
>> assume they are read-only in regards to LDAP.
>> 
>>> I can see that we don't want to define them in the Nova database, as
>>> Swift might not have access to that, and swift is going to be one of
>>> the primary consumers of Quotas.  I am Assuming Quantum will have them
>> as well.
>>> 
>>> As you are aware, there is no metadata storage in the LDAP driver,
>>> instead it is generated from the tenant and role information on the
>>> fly.  There is no place to store metadata in "groupOfNames" which is
>>> the lowest( common
>>> denominator) grouping used for Tenants.  Probably the most correct
>>> thing to do would be to use a "seeAlso"  that points to where the
>>> quota data is stored.
>>> 
>> 
>> Let's try not to force things into attributes if possible.
>> 
>> When LDAP is used, is the SQL backend not used at all? Why not store quota
>> info in Keystone's SQL backend, but pull user info from LDAP, when
> enabled?
>> 
>> We should only consider storing something in LDAP if it's going to be
> reused
>> by other applications. LDAP has a strict schema for exactly this purpose.
> If the
>> quota information isn't directly usable by other applications we shouldn't
>> store it in LDAP.
>> 
>> Many applications with an LDAP backend also have an SQL backend, and use
>> the SQL as primary storage for most things, and as a cache for LDAP, if
> it's
>> used. I think this is likely a sane approach here, as well.
>> 
>> - Ryan
>> 
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