[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Add a new user-add flag param to disable the creation of UPG.

[Rich Megginson]

On 03/28/2011 04:20 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 04:38 PM, Pavel Zůna wrote:
>> This patch handles the issue in a kind of stupid way, but I couldn't 
>> think of anything better.
>>
>> It adds a new flag parameter to user-add (--noprivate). With this 
>> flag, the command marks the private group about to be created for 
>> deletion and is deleted after the user is created. The only exception 
>> is when there is a group, that is named the same way as the user, but 
>> isn't a private group - then the group is left there.
>>
>> Private groups are created automatically by the managed entry DS 
>> plugin and I didn't find a way to disable its creation for a specific 
>> user.
>
> The idea that comes to mind is to define some magical attribute that 
> the DS plugin would recognize and skip the creation of the managed 
> entry as well as strip the entry of this magic attribute/value.
> I remember that other plugins might take advantage of the similar 
> approach.
>
> Is something like this possible?
winsync does something similar
>
>
>>
>> Ticket #1131
>>
>> Pavel
>>
>>
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>
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> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
>
> Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
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