[389-users] Re: lib389 question

> On 29 Jan 2021, at 19:54, Marco Favero <m.faverof@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>> Since you are already using python, you could more easily just use lib389 directly rather
>> than subprocess to dsconf btw:
>>
>>
>> from lib389 import DirSrv
>> import logging
> [...]
>
> I leave just a note on this...
>
> Really at the moment I prefer trust on dsconf. I see that the lib389 documentation is still work in progress.
>
> Or it's not clear for me where to find the full documentation. For instance, here
>
> https://lib389.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugin.html
>
> it's not clear how to configure all uniqueness plugin parameters.
>
> A more complete documentation seems the following:
>
> https://spichugi.fedorapeople.org/html/plugin.html

I think simon has the most up to date documentation. Remember, dsconf itself relies on lib389 so it can be trusted.

>
> but for example it still lacks on some configurations about AttributeUniquenessPlugin, such as "--subtree-entries-oc" which dsconf manages fine.
>
> Another way to proceed is to manage all attributes and dn directly with LDAP modify operations, but this would bypass lib389...

That's also a good approach, since cn=config is not subject to large amounts of change.

>
> Thank you again for all the hints
> Kind Regards
> Marco
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Sincerely,

William Brown

Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs, Australia
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