Re: [ldapext] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-ldap-managedit-00.txt

[John McMeeking <jmcmeek@us.ibm.com>]

I would like to see a name for the control
that is not so close to the existing ManageDsaIT control.  I picture
someone using the wrong control because of the similarity in names.  Maybe
something along the lines of "repair DIT" or "allow exceptions"?

I have occasionally found the need for
such a mechanism.

I've always been a little uneasy about
making it too easy to use for fear that an administrator would start using
such a control for one purpose and either use it where it shouldn't have
been used -- like inadvertantly updating an entry on a read-only replica
because he misdiagnosed a problem, or using it to fix one problem and because
of the controls presence also be allowed to do something else unintended.
 Or worse yet, just start using the control out of bad habit.

I'm trying to think of something that
makes the control perhaps a little less dangerous without making it impossible
to use.  In some respects, maybe what I really want is an interactive
"are you sure you want to do this" capability; of course those
always come with a "yes to all" option, so maybe I'm just unduly
paranoid.  Maybe there could be a family of controls - one control
for each kind of exceptional action - or a control value indicating the
kind of change intended.


John  McMeeking


"Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
wrote on 02/28/2006 03:30:13 PM:

> Enjoy!  -- Kurt
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> >Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:50:01 -0500
> >Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-ldap-managedit-00.txt 
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> >        Title        
  : The LDAP Manage Directory Information Tree Control
> >        Author(s)       : K.
Zeilenga
> >        Filename        :
draft-zeilenga-ldap-managedit-00.txt
> >        Pages        
  : 12
> >        Date          
 : 2006-2-28
> >        
> >This document defines the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP)
> >Manage Directory Information Tree (DIT) Control which allows a
> >directory user agent (a client) to request the directory service
> >temporarily relax enforcement of constraints of the X.500 models.
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