Thanks a lot Flo.
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From: Florence Blanc-Renaud <[email protected]>
Sent: 20 May 2022 13:12
To: FreeIPA users list <[email protected]>
Cc: Angus Clarke <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] hostgroup automember rules

Hi,

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:48 AM Angus Clarke via FreeIPA-users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:
Hello

FreeIPA 4.6.8

We are very happy with hostgroup automember rules based on servername attribute 
however one of our internal customers uses a generic servername template for 
all of their servers regardless of its function.

So I'm wondering what other attributes I might use for hostgroup automember - 
perhaps some of the attributes can be configured by the ipa-client-install (the 
host's "description" field perhaps) although I don't see such mention in the 
man page ... Presumably they could use a different enrollment user 
("enrolledby") for each of their hostgroup functions (not ideal.)

There are various attribute fields in the WebUI but I don't find much 
documentation for them. What is the "|" field - perhaps I can exploit this 
somehow?

The automember group functionality is described in this chapter: Automating 
group membership using IdM 
CLI<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faccess.redhat.com%2Fdocumentation%2Fen-us%2Fred_hat_enterprise_linux%2F8%2Fhtml%2Fmanaging_idm_users_groups_hosts_and_access_control_rules%2Fautomating-group-membership-using-idm-cli_managing-users-groups-hosts%23doc-wrapper&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb6d74a98ce3c4a191ed808da3a51b223%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637886419797093673%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zntaNdlnuy4BoZggjoR6DUyxUIVnvgb8Sn0kUA2AStE%3D&reserved=0>.
You can define a new hostgroup with an automember rule based on any attribute 
defined in the schema. Just be aware that the conditions are defined using 
Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE) format.
The 'l' attribute is an alias for 'locality' or 'localityname' and can contain 
any string. For any attribute you can find its description in the LDAP schema.

The host entries have multiple object classes. For instance if you run
ipa host-show server.ipa.test --all --raw
you can see all its objectclasses:
  objectClass: top
  objectClass: ipaobject
  objectClass: nshost
  objectClass: ipahost
  objectClass: ipaservice
  objectClass: pkiuser
  objectClass: krbprincipalaux
  objectClass: krbprincipal
  objectClass: krbticketpolicyaux
  objectClass: ipasshhost
  objectClass: ipaSshGroupOfPubKeys

Each object class defines the mandatory/optional attributes that the entry can 
contain. For instance in order to find the attributes for the nshost 
objectclass:
ldapsearch -LLL -o ldif-wrap=no -b cn=schema -s base objectclasses | grep -i 
nshost
objectclasses: ( nsHost-oid NAME 'nsHost' DESC 'Netscape defined objectclass' 
SUP top STRUCTURAL MUST cn MAY ( serverHostName $ description $ l $ 
nsHostLocation $ nsHardwarePlatform $ nsOsVersion ) X-ORIGIN 'Netscape' )

The nshost objectclass allows the presence of serverhostname, description, l 
etc...
Now to find what description can contain:
ldapsearch -LLL -o ldif-wrap=no -b cn=schema -s base attributetypes | grep -i 
description
attributetypes: ( 2.5.4.13 NAME 'description'  EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch SUBSTR 
caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 X-ORIGIN 'RFC 
4519' )

The SYNTAX part defines the type of data (the RFC 
4517<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Frfc4517%23section-3.3.6&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb6d74a98ce3c4a191ed808da3a51b223%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637886419797093673%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vGaicO1JVQIr5rueD8%2FcndBgf8lvUyblmnz8Nba2qCU%3D&reserved=0>
 defines 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 as a DirectoryString).
With this knowledge, you can pick an attribute where you want to store 
information that can be used to group the hosts together, and create the 
matching rule using this attribute.

If you are curious about LDAP schema in general, you can read the RFC 
4519<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Frfc%2Frfc4519.txt&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb6d74a98ce3c4a191ed808da3a51b223%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637886419797093673%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6JOgDQgg1b6n209BSheguhWB7r5WXYgAUaAxNMlfRTk%3D&reserved=0>.
HTH,
flo



Any advice gladly received.

Thanks a lot
Angus
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