Source: icingaweb2 Severity: wishlist
Hi. Currently, icingaweb2 doesn't set up/manage the Icinga Web 2 specific DBs at all, it even doesn't depend on php-mysql|php-pgsql... This is of course great, as Icinga Web 2 doesn't stricly need and DB for authentication, but can also use local files, LDAP, etc.. But it also seems, that even when auth/authz is done e.g. via webserver authentication (HTTP Basic auth) and local INI files, one would need a DB if one wanted to use groups. So in the end it would be nice, if icingaweb2 would provide and *optional* way to manage that DB (and perhaps even initially add an admin user if the installing user wishes to do so), ideally with dbconfig-common. My idea would be, that perhaps icingaweb2 Suggests a icingaweb2-db-auth package (or perhaps using some better name). This could then depend on dbconfig-common, contain the schema files and depend on php-psql|php-mysql. On installation, dbconfig would kick in and allow the user to take over management and future schema upgrades. Since icingaweb2-db-auth would be only Suggested, users could still opt-out of the whole DB-for-Icinga-Web2 thingy. And of course php-icinga would still continue to Recommend php-mysql|php-pgsql which are of course e.g. still needed to connect to IDO. Cheers, Chris.
