[Freeipa-devel] Supported Staged entries
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Tue May 27 16:56:09 UTC 2014
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 18:39 +0200, thierry bordaz wrote:
> On 05/27/2014 06:06 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > We just need to care about the 'uid' attribute in the staged entry, and
> > pick that to generate the RDN of the user in the active tree. If there
> > are conflicts the 'unstage' will fail cleanly, as the 'add' operation
> > will just fail (due to non unique RDN) and the admin will have to take
> > care of the situation.
> In that case the provisioning system created a staging entry
> ou=TestUser,$STAGING, it will get an active entry uid=xxx,$ACTIVE
> It could be an issue for the provisioning system to retrieve the entry
> it created.
Too bad for the provisioning system, we are not going to allow users to
have a form that does not use uid in the RDN in IPA.
> > Sounds like a lot of complexity for a problem we do not really have, all
> > we need is to not enforce uniqueness in staging.
>
> This proposal was also to limit the operator privilege to do MODRDN from
> 'pre-active' to 'active', instead ADD on 'active'.
It is not useful, the operator still needs to be able to create in
pre-active ... so it can still create what it wants.
Simo.
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